Summary
Matthew Thode is an Infrastructure Engineer with 12+ years designing and automating large-scale Linux environments, currently at Farsight Security and a long-time contributor and leader within the Gentoo Linux and OpenStack communities. He blends deep systems hardening and virtualization expertise with hands-on automation using Ansible, Chef, and Puppet, and writes production tooling in Python and Ruby. His career includes founding devops stacks at Rackspace and operating his own Linux/VoIP practice, reflecting a mix of enterprise and small-business problem-solving. A Gentoo trustee and project lead, he pairs obsessive documentation and testing habits with direct client-facing experience, which helps translate complex infrastructure needs into auditable, secure deployments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Purdue University