Matthew Laird
Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Laird is a Senior Software Engineer based in Indianapolis with 11 years of experience building monitoring systems and configuration tooling, currently at Akamai Technologies. He transitioned from technical writing and editorial roles into software engineering, bringing strong communication skills and a knack for making complex systems understandable. His background spans DNS and networking-focused work at Nominum to large-scale monitoring at Akamai, giving him deep domain knowledge in observability and infrastructure. Matthew combines pragmatic engineering with clear documentation practices, often bridging gaps between SRE, dev, and product teams. Collected editorial experience and a BA in English, Philosophy, and History inform his methodical, user-focused approach to tooling and runbook quality. He’s the kind of engineer who optimizes both metrics and message—improving system reliability while keeping teams aligned.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Philosophy, History, BA, English, Philosophy, History at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (44)
monitoring9
python9
kapacitor9
infrastructure9
remote-execution8
zeromq8
docker8
salt8
scale8
docker-compose8
iot8
time-series8
configuration-management8
infrastructure-management8
package-repository8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mtlaird/steam-db
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
mtlaird/kodimedialibraryexplorer
May 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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