Matthew Wilson
VP Distinguished Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Wilson is a VP and Distinguished Engineer with 27 years designing and shipping system software that powers cloud-scale infrastructure, including firmware, hypervisors, kernels, I/O virtualization and distributed control planes. Based in Seattle, he has led and mentored technical teams at Amazon and AWS, driving platform-level performance tuning across CPU, memory, scheduling, storage and networking. His background includes founding-engineer experience building software configuration management at rPath and early systems work at Red Hat, giving him deep hands-on cred in both open source and enterprise product delivery. He combines strategic leadership with low-level implementation expertise, often surfacing optimizations that span hardware and software boundaries. An engineer comfortable moving between silicon-near firmware and global distributed control planes, he habitually balances bold architectural change with pragmatic operational rigor.
27 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
College of Engineering, College of Engineering at North Carolina State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
cost-optimization10
gimp10
serverless10
initscript10
firecracker10
data-storage10
virtualization10
rust10
sandbox10
gzip10
rds10
gitlab10
amazon-ec210
gnome10
amazon10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mswilson/SCXcore
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
System Center Cross Platform Provider for Operations Manager
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
centerproviderwindowslinuxsystem-center
mswilson/ec2instances.info
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Amazon EC2 instance comparison site
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
ecsec2amazon-ec2amazoncomparison
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