Matthew Traughber
Senior Platform Engineer II
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Traughber is a Senior Platform Engineer with over a decade of experience helping organizations "shift left" to deliver value faster and with higher quality. He has progressed from hands-on test engineering roles to leadership positions in infrastructure quality and platform engineering at companies like Red Hat, Appian, and Drata. Matthew specializes in building reliable, automated infrastructure and quality practices that enable faster, safer shipping across distributed teams. He combines managerial experience with deep technical roots in test automation and platform reliability, often focusing on pragmatic, auditable solutions for compliance-minded environments. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, he blends enterprise-grade rigor with startup velocity and a penchant for improving engineering velocity through tooling and process. An understated strength is his consistent career arc from desktop and services support into influencing platform strategy—evidence of both technical curiosity and effective cross-functional leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAssociate’s Degree, Information Technology, Associate’s Degree, Information Technology at Monroe Community College
Github Skills (29)
window-manager10
space-partitioning9
tiling9
java9
macos8
karabiner8
ruby7
keyboard7
shell7
music6
linux5
windows5
qt5
player4
page-object4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
matthewtraughber/dots-etc
Dec 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:58 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 5 months
matthewtraughber/4002-536_project-2
Aug 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 7 months
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