Matthew Mead-briggs
Engineering Manager at Yelp
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Mead-briggs is an engineering manager based in London with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale. He progressed from IT support and consulting into site reliability and now leads engineering at Yelp, combining hands-on DevOps expertise with people and delivery management. His open-source work on Yelp's PaaSTA platform shows deep Kubernetes and autoscaling experience, including refactoring cluster autoscalers for flexible AWS deployments. Trained as a physicist (MSc, University of Bristol), he brings analytical rigor to operational resilience and automation, favoring pragmatic tooling improvements that reduce toil.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Science, Physics, Master in Science, Physics at University of Bristol
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
automation10
automations10
aws10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
python9
container8
docker8
containerization8
zookeeper7
mesos6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes SpecialistContributions:23 reviews, 777 commits, 527 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the PaaSTA platform-as-a-service, focusing on the automation and management of Kubernetes deployments. Their work involved enhancing the `cleanup_marathon_jobs` script and the `paasta-deployd` tool with new functionality and improvements. A significant portion of their work included refactoring the cluster autoscaler to support more flexible AWS configurations.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
mattmb/Autorippr
Oct 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 6 years 10 months
makemkvpythonblenderhandbrakeblend
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