Matthew Silvey
Director Of DevOps Engineering at Quantifind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Silvey is a seasoned DevOps and infrastructure leader with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, big data pipelines, and secure cloud platforms. He blends hands-on engineering—across Java, Python, Ruby, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes and Terraform—with people management and project leadership, most recently serving as Director of DevOps Engineering. As an independent consultant he has driven PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance, CTO-level cost and security reviews for AWS/GCP, and architecture work that migrated ad-tech and FinTech clients to auditable, regionally distributed deployments. An active contributor to Cassandra tooling and performance tuning, he brings deep operational troubleshooting skills and an appetite for JVM and data-store optimization that often reveals hidden bottlenecks. Based in San Francisco, he is available for medium-term engagements and combines strategic thinking with the ability to implement production-grade solutions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete Mathematics, Incomplete Mathematics at City College of Chicago
Github Skills (9)
javas10
chef-client10
configuration-management10
chef-solo10
cassandra10
cassandra-database10
java10
devops9
cms9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michaelklishin/cassandra-chef-cookbook
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Chef cookbook for Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise (DSE) and DataStax agent
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew focused on improving the performance and configuration of the Apache Cassandra cookbook. They implemented and adjusted JVM tuning options for garbage collection (G1GC and CMS), including options for logging and performance, which directly impacts Cassandra's performance. Further, they fixed issues with log directory configuration and added retries for a network-related issue. The contributions included modifications to both the attribute files and the Cassandra-env.sh template.
cookbookdseagentcassandraapache
msilvey/cassandra-chef-cookbook
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
cookbookdseagentcassandraapache
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