Peter Matseykanets
Principal Software Engineer at SUSE
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Matseykanets is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building databases, backend services, and distributed systems, currently contributing to SUSE Rancher’s Authentication and RBAC team from Raleigh, NC. He specializes in database design, API and microservices development, and cloud-native architectures using Go, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS/GCP, and has been building distributed systems in Go since 2018. Peter has led engineering teams and large integrations across advertising, monitoring, and Web3 payments platforms, bringing product-focused technical design and delivery expertise from startups to enterprise. His open-source contributions include meaningful backend improvements to the widely used Rancher container management platform, tightening authentication flows and settings hygiene. Known for bridging deep database chops with modern cloud-native practices, he combines hands-on coding with architecture and release management to ship resilient production systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Montgomery CollegeBS/MS Engineer (graduated with honors), Radio engineering, BS/MS Engineer (graduated with honors), Radio engineering at Kamchatka State Academy
English, Russian
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Github Skills (67)
jquery-mobile10
authentication10
rancher10
laravel10
trigger10
sql10
kubernetes-pods10
database10
kubernetes10
eloquent10
mysql10
sql-server10
go10
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Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Sep 2023 - Jul 2026
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:455 reviews, 266 PRs, 147 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions focused on enhancing the Rancher platform's back-end functionality, particularly around settings management and authentication. They added functionality to label and delete unknown/deprecated settings during startup, ensuring a cleaner and more efficient system. They also addressed issues related to authentication, specifically fixing the struct field tag in OIDCConfig and incorporating service account token authentication for proxied requests. Furthermore, they made improvements to GitHub and SAML authentication providers.
container-managementrancherdockerkubernetesorchestration
pmatseykanets/gh-tools
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
GitHub tools
Contributions:12 releases, 34 commits, 42 PRs in 11 months
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