Matthew Miller
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Miller is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and long-standing Fedora Project Leader with 22 years of experience building and stewarding open-source infrastructure. Based in Somerville, MA, he blends hands-on engineering with project leadership—contributing to critical tooling like DNF where he improved update automation, race-condition handling, and maintainability. Known as a hobby coder, he focuses on practical, reliable solutions that scale across large Linux ecosystems and distributions. His work sits at the intersection of DevOps, package management, and community-driven product stewardship, reflecting deep institutional knowledge of Linux packaging workflows.
21 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
cron10
automation10
automations10
bash10
package-management10
server10
nginx9
python7
dnf7
harddrive6
fedora6
linux6
terminology6
rubygems6
rpm6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rpm-software-management/dnf
Jul 2011 - Jul 2015
Package manager based on libdnf and libsolv. Replaces YUM.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Matthew focused on improving the `yum-cron` functionality within the `dnf` package manager repository. Their contributions included refactoring the core `yum-cron.sh` script, enhancing the cron scripts, and fixing potential race conditions in the locking mechanism. They also improved code maintainability by adding comments and renaming internal variables for greater clarity. The impact of the changes streamlined the update process and resolved potential concurrency issues.
pythonrpmpackage-managerlinuxyum
mattdm/isohexen
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:251 commits, 115 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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