Matthew Pounsett
Systems Engineer at Nimbus Operations
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Pounsett is a systems engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating DNS infrastructure and internet-facing systems. Currently at DNS-OARC and running Nimbus Operations, he blends operational rigor with consultancy work to solve large-scale DNS and resiliency challenges. His career includes leadership and advisory roles across registries and domain operators (CIRA, Afilias, Donuts, Rightside), giving him deep expertise in DNS operations, standards, and policy. An early practitioner of what became known as DevOps, he pairs pragmatic automation with protocol-level knowledge that most engineers lack. Based in Old Toronto, he contributes to internet governance and standards discussions, bringing both historical perspective and practical implementation experience. Peers know him as a thoughtful “meddler” in standards—comfortable turning policy debates into deployable, reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (173)
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icinga10
pgp10
nagios10
chat10
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graphite10
mattermost10
notification10
golang10
monorepo10
graylog10
keybase10
elastic10
react-native10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mpounsett/check-mount
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 20 pushes in 2 years 2 months
mpounsett/secret-santa
Nov 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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