Matthew Peake
Cloud Security Engineer at WorkOS
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Peake is a Cloud Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience securing cloud-native and enterprise environments, currently focused on strengthening WorkOS's security posture. He has progressed from student analyst roles at Kent State into leadership positions—most recently Staff Security Operations Engineer at Apollo GraphQL and Director of Security Engineering at Optum—bringing both offensive and defensive expertise in incident response, SIEM, and application security. Matthew blends deep operational familiarity with tooling like Splunk and WAFs alongside cloud-focused threat modeling and controls, making him adept at bridging engineering and risk teams. He’s comfortable leading security programs at scale while still diving into technical details, from building monitoring pipelines to coordinating incident response. Based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, he combines a computer science foundation with real-world experience across startups and large organizations, often favoring pragmatic, auditable solutions over theoretical fixes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Kent State UniversityHigh School, High School at Cuyahoga Falls High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (180)
parser10
restify10
apollo-server10
apollo-ios10
code-generation10
apollo-client10
express-graphql10
apollo10
javascript10
spring-graphql10
hapi10
kotlin-multiplatform10
graphql-tools10
apollographql10
swift10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
peakematt/docker-backup-manager
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:7 reviews, 30 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 11 months
peakematt/multitool
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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