Matthew Prahl
Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead at Red Hat
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Prahl is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, security-focused infrastructure at Red Hat and earlier at MITRE. He specializes in Kubernetes extensibility—authoring custom controllers and CRDs in Go—and has led policy and governance efforts for Open Cluster Management while presenting at industry conferences. Matthew pairs hands-on engineering (Python, Go, Node.js, Rust and Golang hobbyist) with delivery leadership, having led scrum teams that automated container rebuilds, security scanning, and release pipelines. He also builds practical automation (including a GitHub app for cherry-picking open-source changes) and mentors junior engineers, bringing a strong pedigree in secure, auditable systems from his background in Active Directory and DoD compliance projects. Based in Virginia, he blends open-source stewardship with enterprise-grade productization and a penchant for automation and efficient developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mount Mansfield Union High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Networking and Information Security, 3.975 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Networking and Information Security, 3.975 GPA at Champlain College
English, French
Github Skills (200)
vsphere10
python10
automation10
vms10
ssh10
ansible10
libvirt10
kubernetes10
docker10
devops10
hardening10
javascript9
network-configuration9
ionic9
linux9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mbach04/nutanix_vm_provisioner
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Ansible role to provision Virtual machines on a Nutanix AHV
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
nutanixmachinesvcenteresxiansible
mbach04/redhat_nutanix_deployer
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
An Ansible role for automating build outs of virtual machines on a Nutanix HCI using APIv3
Contributions:98 commits, 24 PRs, 80 pushes in 3 months
nutanixmachinesnetwork-automationansiblevirtual-machines
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