Matthew Zizzi
Site Reliability Engineer at Patreon
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Zizzi is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale web and cloud systems from Raleigh, NC. He has led DevOps transformation efforts—founding a CI/CD center of excellence and guiding a move to OpenShift/Kubernetes—while also scaling services to handle thousands of requests per second. Hands-on across the stack, Matthew contributes to major open-source projects like Ansible, where he improved AWS/cloud resilience with jittered backoff and retry logic. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver and collaborative leader, he bridges developers, ops, and security to automate the SDLC and enable zero-downtime deployments. His background in teaching and academic research underscores a habit of clear communication and practical prototyping.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.58, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.58 at North Carolina State University
English
Github Skills (10)
ansible-galaxy10
aws-cloudformation10
boto10
aws10
devops10
python10
ansible10
backup-strategies9
exponential-backoff9
backup9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the automation and cloud infrastructure aspects of the project, specifically within the cloud and amazon services. They added configurable backoff implementations to the CloudRetry/AWSRetry classes, improving the resilience of cloud operations. Furthermore, the user refactored and enhanced the cloudformation modules by adding jittered backoff and retries. Their work involved modifying cloud modules and utiliy functions demonstrating an understanding of core ansible modules.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
mzizzi/aws-cdk
Jul 2021 - Nov 2024
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
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