Matthew Mattox
Principal Support Engineer at SUSE
Sterling, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Mattox is a Principal Support Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale storage and Kubernetes ecosystems, currently focused on CNCF-incubated Longhorn at SUSE/Rancher. He led the rewrite of Longhorn from C to Go and architected core components that improved snapshot, backup, and recovery performance by up to 40%, while supporting 14k+ Kubernetes nodes across cloud and on-prem environments. A pragmatic DevOps engineer, he designs repeatable, auditable infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible and improves CI/CD reliability using Jenkins, Drone, and GitHub Actions. Comfortable across the stack from enterprise SANs to cloud-native storage, he primarily codes in Go and applies decades of incident-response and automation experience to shrink mean-time-to-repair. Based in Sterling, Illinois, he treats IT as a profit center and is an active open-source contributor—check his work on GitHub for practical tooling and Longhorn contributions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A.A.S, Systems and Networking Administration, A.A.S, Systems and Networking Administration at Morrison Institute of TechnologyAssociate's degree, Computer Installation and Repair Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Computer Installation and Repair Technology/Technician at Sauk Valley Community College
English
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Github Skills (157)
container-management10
high-availability10
rancher10
scheduling10
backup10
persistent-volume-claims10
orchestration10
k8s10
mesos10
recover10
k3d10
kubernetes10
longhorn10
persistent-volumes10
storage10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mattmattox/rancher-scripts
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
mattmattox/drain-node-on-crash
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
This app is designed to automatically Drain a node after a crash where the node fails to recover after 5mins.
Contributions:2 releases, 83 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
drainfailsnodejsrecoverapp-is
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