Matthew Motti
Lead Technician at Seminole Tribe of Florida
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Motti is a hands-on Lead Technician based in Tampa, Florida with eight years of engineering experience focused on systems, automation, and backend reliability. He contributes to notable open-source projects around Pi-hole, improving regex-based blocking by moving patterns into databases, optimizing matching, and adding Docker-friendly installation and lifecycle scripts. Matthew blends practical DevOps scripting with backend refactors, demonstrating an ability to turn ad-hoc tooling into maintainable, automatable components that scale in production environments. At the Seminole Tribe of Florida he applies this pragmatic engineering mindset to operational systems, emphasizing repeatable installs and robust service restarts. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers concise scripts and clean integrations over unnecessary complexity.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
awk10
sqlite10
scripting10
bash10
regular-expression10
automation10
script10
pihole10
sh10
automations10
shell10
dockers9
docker9
nameserver8
filtering8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mmotti/pihole-regex
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:126 commits, 11 PRs, 120 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the installation and management of a custom regex filter list for Pi-hole, focusing on automating the installation process. Their work involved creating and refining shell scripts (`install.sh` and `uninstall.sh`) to fetch, integrate, and update regex rules, including integrating with the Pi-hole database. Further contributions include the introduction of Docker support and using the Pi-hole restartdns functionality.
filterlistpiholeregexpi-holepi-hole-blocklists
pi-hole/pi-hole
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
A black hole for Internet advertisements
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 30 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Pi-hole's query processing scripts. Their contributions involved refactoring the code to read regex patterns from a database instead of a file, improving the efficiency of regular expression matching, and addressing consistency issues. The user also made adjustments to improve the formatting and clarity of the output.
blackholepi-holead-blockershellraspberry-pi
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