Matthew Macdonald-wallace
Solutions Architect at Dash0
Monmouth, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Macdonald-wallace is a Solutions Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native, DevOps and IoT systems across enterprises and niche projects. He has led architecture and consultancy roles at Grafana Labs and Contino, founded IoT-focused consultancies and community maker spaces, and currently combines product-focused architecture work with grassroots tech mentoring in Monmouth, Wales. Technically pragmatic, he pairs Terraform/Ansible-driven infrastructure and Prometheus-enabled observability—demonstrated by contributions that added Prometheus metrics to the popular uptime-kuma monitoring tool—with production-grade IoT deployments across rural landscapes. Equally comfortable coding Python backends and building automated platform pipelines, he brings a systems-thinking approach to reduce operational toil and improve measurable reliability. An enthusiast of model railways and real-time data feeds, he often blends hobbyist curiosity with production engineering to solve unconventional problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The Open UniversitySt. Wilfrids R.C. Secondary School
French
Stackoverflow
61reputation
19kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (15)
monitoring10
uptime-monitoring10
nodejs10
prometheus10
expressjs9
docker8
javascript8
dockers8
libyaml6
linux6
flask-security6
python6
jinja26
redirect6
flask6
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
louislam/uptime-kuma
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Matthew focused on enhancing the monitoring capabilities of the "uptime-kuma" tool. Their primary contributions involved integrating Prometheus metrics, including response time, status, and TLS certificate validity. They exposed these metrics via a `/metrics` endpoint, and implemented various Prometheus gauges within the application to provide better monitoring and debugging. These additions improved the tool's ability to track and report on critical uptime metrics.
monitoringuptimedockerselfhostedsingle-page-app
proffalken/JMR-Pi
Mar 2015 - Feb 2022
Setup scripts for JMRI on the Raspberri-Pi
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 8 comments in 7 years
raspberry-pijmri
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