Matthew Yeazel
Staff Software Engineer at Paper Compute Company
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Yeazel is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with a strong track record of building and operating Linux-based systems at AWS scale, spanning cloud, embedded, and specialized workloads. He has deep hands-on experience with Bottlerocket OS—contributing networking features like bonding and VLANs, integrating ethtool, and driving vulnerability tracking and release operations for the project. Matthew blends systems-level engineering (kernel/OS builds, device drivers, custom embedded BSPs) with modern Rust back-end tooling and DevOps practices, and has led cross-functional teams through architecture, roadmaps, and incident rotations. Before his current role he shaped multi-cloud infrastructure and observability at Climate LLC and automated OS and deployment tooling across Prime Air and EC2 macOS initiatives. Known for turning operational pain points into production-grade automation, he maintains active open-source work on GitHub that reflects his focus on resilient, container-focused OS primitives.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Music Education, Music, Bachelor's of Music Education, Music at Evangel University
Github Skills (9)
network-configuration10
linux10
container10
rust10
networking10
operating-system10
systemd9
yaml7
go5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 607 reviews, 16 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the network configuration aspects of the operating system, adding support for bonding and VLANs. They implemented structures for network configuration, specifically focusing on bonding modes, monitoring configurations, and VLAN tagging within the `netdog` module. Additionally, the user integrated the `ethtool` package and made modifications to the shutdown process within open-vm-tools. They also made several changes related to networkd configuration.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
yeazelm/bottlerocket-core-kit
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
A kit with core software packaged for Bottlerocket
Contributions:76 pushes, 30 branches in 8 months
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