Sophie Matthews
Web Operations Engineer Site Reliability Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie Matthews is a seasoned Site Reliability and Web Operations Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and migrating web-facing infrastructure, currently focused on moving Yelp’s physical datacenter workloads into AWS. She brings deep Linux systems administration and Puppet expertise, having provisioned EC2 fleets, tuned instance sizing, and extended monitoring and load‑balancing for production services. Earlier roles at Future Publishing, FT Labs and other firms honed her deployment, MySQL and automation skills across diverse UNIX-like environments. Based in London, she combines hands-on troubleshooting with pragmatic automation to reduce toil and improve reliability. Outside of work she’s part of the British transfemme furry community, which reflects a collaborative, community-oriented approach to engineering and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First at University of the West of England
English
Github Skills (102)
rtsp10
http10
websocket10
pop310
command-line-tool10
sftp10
mqtt10
ftp10
ftps10
telnet10
wss10
tftp10
ldap10
user-agent10
imap10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/terraform-provider-cloudhealth
Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
Terraform provider for Cloudhealth
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
providercloudhealthconfluent-cloudinfrastructure-as-codeterraform
Yelp/puppet-vault
Mar 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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