Matthew Tippett
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Zoox
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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RockstarMatthew Tippett is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Sunnyvale with over a decade of hands-on experience leading engineering teams across cloud, networking, mobile, and security at companies including Amazon, Meta, Zoox, Palm, and Juniper/Pulse Secure. He combines deep systems-level expertise—originating from bootstrapping a Linux graphics drivers team at ATI/AMD—with senior leadership in Big Data, cloud services, and device engineering, and a knack for translating technical tradeoffs into business outcomes through partnerships with Infosec, Finance, and Legal. Known as a pragmatic systems thinker and coach, he moves fluidly between intent-based leadership and growth-mindset mentoring, running structured mentoring programs and private coaching while actively contributing to open-source projects like the Phoronix Test Suite. After a recent period focused on direct technical leadership and immigration, he’s returned to senior roles to ship product, grow teams, and tackle difficult architecture and debugging challenges—often live-streaming debugging sessions to share knowledge.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
php10
benchmark10
benchmarking10
testing9
linux9
performance-analysis8
performance-monitor8
phpunit8
git7
fast-forward6
git-merge6
bash6
android6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite
May 2021 - Mar 2022
The Phoronix Test Suite open-source, cross-platform automated testing/benchmarking software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 10 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to fixing issues within the Phoromatic framework. They made several commits addressing context calls and file paths within the php modules. Additionally, the user merged branches, adding repository URL information, and also made improvements to network configuration, network device, and mac address retrieval code. The user's work demonstrates a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the Phoronix Test Suite.
benchmarkingprofilingautomated-testingtestingphp
livedebug/livedebug
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:70 commits, 94 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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