Matthew Barnes
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc
Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Short is a Senior Software Engineer with 20 years of experience building cloud-native and system-level infrastructure, currently focusing on advanced cluster management at Red Hat. He is a prolific open-source contributor with notable work on projects like rpm-ostree and ostree, improving CLI parsing, package layering, bootloader integration, and security features such as GPG verification. Comfortable across Go, Python, Kubernetes and Linux, he blends backend systems design with DevOps automation—having contributed to OpenShift tooling and Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP features like MTU configuration. Based in Dana Point, CA, he brings production-hardened SRE and systems expertise from roles at Nokia and multiple enterprise environments. Outside of work he’s an avid open-source maintainer and a hands-on father of two who unwinds by chasing his kids around the beach.
20 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
bootloader10
kubernetes10
docker10
package-management10
command-line-interface10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
c1110
dockers10
cicd10
pg10
dbus10
gsettings10
security10
c1710
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-tools
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
A public repository of scripts used by OpenShift Operations for various purposes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:169 commits, 166 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of OpenShift tools and infrastructure. Their work included supporting overlay2 Docker storage drivers, merging code, and fixing critical issues related to boolean group handling within the multi-inventory.py script. They also focused on building and maintaining Docker images and automating deployments with the addition of cloud storage rules.
openshift
Azure/ARO-RP
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 21 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the backend logic and infrastructure of the Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP. Their work included implementing a feature flag for setting the MTU on cluster nodes to 3900 bytes, which involved changes to the cluster deployment process and API. Additionally, they modified error handling and enhanced the MTU configuration, including setting it on the bootstrap node. The user also moved project dependencies to the jewzaam's GitHub account.
azureopenshiftredhat
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