Matthew Whittington
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Whittington is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms at Atlassian. He specializes in making cloud-native systems robust, reliable and future-proof—authoring Go tooling, CI/CD pipelines that deploy to 35+ clusters, and comprehensive integration tests that enable safe cluster changes. A longtime contributor to kube2iam, he has improved cross-account IAM role support and namespace restrictions, reflecting a strong focus on security and multi-tenant cloud operations. Known for pairing pragmatic engineering with clear documentation and SLO-driven reliability practices, he also enjoys solving hard infrastructure problems at scale even while expressing a healthy disdain for YAML.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Information Technology at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
docker8
dockers8
microservices-application7
microservices7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jtblin/kube2iam
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
kube2iam provides different AWS IAM roles for pods running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 17 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to the core functionality of kube2iam by implementing features to support cross-account AWS IAM role assumptions and namespace restrictions. They modified server and IAM logic to accommodate full ARN handling and added namespace restriction checks. Their work included refactoring and merging code, demonstrating a focus on improving the security and usability of the project within a Kubernetes environment.
iam-roleskube2iamkubernetesiampods
mwhittington21/kube2iam
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
kube2iam provides different AWS IAM roles for pods running on Kubernetes
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
iam-roleskube2iamkubernetesiampods
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