Summary
Matthew Painter is a Senior DevOps Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and leading teams around Kubernetes, networking, security, and automation. Based in Michigan and currently at Leidos, he specializes in deploying microservices with Helm and integrating development and lab teams to operationalize cybersecurity research. He emphasizes teaching and team growth, believing strong Kubernetes practice requires a practical understanding of networking, secure development, and container packaging. Comfortable with Terraform, Ansible, and Python for automation, Matthew blends infrastructure-as-code with scripting for fine-grained control. His background spans application security policy work and production .NET tooling from early co-op roles, giving him a rare combination of platform-first DevOps skills and application-level security awareness.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Senior at Michigan Technological University
Computer Science, Computer Science at National Honors Society
Diploma, Diploma at Herbert Henry Dow High School
English, German