Matthew Briggs

Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system designed and optimized for running containers.

Twoliter: Designed, scoped, planned, and led a team on a critical path project to generalize Bottlerocket's build system, using Rust and Docker, so that users could customize the operating system.

Design: https://tinyurl.com/twoliter-design.

Repo: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/twoliter.

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Designed, scoped, planned the project, and led a team to build a testing system for Bottlerocket using Rust and kube-rs. https://tinyurl.com/testsys-design

Wrote a detailed blog post about how Bottlerocket's unique build system works. https://tinyurl.com/bottlerocket-build

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Designed and implemented a solution to cryptographically secure Bottlerocket's update migration binaries using Rust and The Update Framework.
https://tinyurl.com/signed-migrations
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Made many contributions to a Rust implementation of The Update Framework.
https://github.com/awslabs/tough
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Participated in hiring decisions and mentored junior engineers.
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Worked at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies May 2019 - January 2020 (Web services at scale: Java, DynamoDB, Aurora, Postgres)

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Promoted to Senior Software Development Engineer.

Started the company, Bitflip Software, to build a custom, unique pricing system for a telecommunications client.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect, Golang! Node.js, React.js, Project Management, Docker, Linux, C++, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Ruby, Rails, XML, XSD, Project Management, API, REST API.

We created http://kompapp.com, a music notation handwriting recognition app for iOS.
Designed and implemented performant, multi-threaded code.

• Developed and launched Komp, a music notation handwriting recognition app for the iPad. Wrote the music notation rendering engine in high-performance, multi-threaded C++.
• Integrated with the machine-learning handwriting recognition system. Developed a sophisticated handwriting integration test system.
  Implemented command pattern architecture for undo/redo functionality.
• Integrated C++ and Objective-C layers.
• Defined product specifications and user stories.
  Led project management, and introduced Pivotal Tracker. Set launch deadlines and managed releases.
• Designed system architecture.

C++, iOS, Objective-C, Ruby, Git, Pivotal Tracker, FogBugz, Kiln, Xcode, Clang, Sourcetree, XML, XSD, XML Schema, MusicXML, and Music Notation Data Model.

Universal Back End (UBE) team. Ultrasound image rendering using C++, Open Inventor. Streaming data across process boundaries. Designing and implementing new OOP software. Hardware integration, crash, and debugging investigations. Creation and maintenance of TFS builds. Legacy code maintenance.

Designed and created pricing software to provide the voice business with 25 million individualized price quotes per month. Large datasets (200 million call attempts per day, 60 million rows of route plans per week, tens of millions of rows of vendor rates). Title progression: Margin and Profitability Analyst (IntelePeer 2008), Revenue Assurance Manager (IntelePeer 2009), Senior Manager, Revenue Assurance (IntelePeer 2011), Senior Manager, Business Intelligence (Peerless 2014). Note: Peerless Network acquired assets (including me) from IntelePeer in 2014.