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Matthew Podber

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Summary

Dynamic and results-driven DevOps Leader with over 20 years of experience spearheading cloud-native and automation initiatives across various sectors. Demonstrated success in managerial and technical roles, utilizing extensive knowledge of AWS, ECS/EKS, Docker, and Terraform to significantly enhance infrastructure scalability, reliability, and security. Expertise in orchestrating complex database and service migration projects to AWS while optimizing CI/CD workflows. Proven ability to lead technical teams and cultivate vendor relationships, consistently delivering measurable business outcomes.

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • EKS
  • Vagrant
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Packer
  • Cloud Formation
  • Route 53 geo-routing
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • Lambda
  • WAF
  • DMS
  • Github Actions
  • CircleCI
  • Github
  • Jenkins
  • Datadog
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Scalr IACP
  • Amazon-Linux
  • CentOS
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Software POC and selection
  • Vendor/Customer relationships management
  • IT Procurement

Work History

DevOps Manager

Glance Systems Inc.
08.2023 - 12.2025
  • Directed a DevOps team to implement end-to-end automation of AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 80% and decreasing human error.
  • Managed a critical modernization initiative to containerize various components, enabling systems to auto-scale and ensuring high availability during peak traffic periods.
  • Engineered the transition from manual deployments to a fully automatic system via GitLab CI, increasing deployment frequency by 50% and accelerating time-to-market.
  • Supervised the complex migration of the primary application to a resilient architecture using Cloudfront CDN, multiple load balancers, and API Gateway, resulting in a 25% improvement in global application speed and reliability.

Staff DevOps Engineer

Evidation Health
07.2022 - 06.2023
  • Spearheaded technical and project efforts to upgrade multiple critical AWS services using Terraform and GitHub Actions, ensuring platform stability and compliance.
  • Designed and implemented scalable AWS platform architectures using Terraform and Cloudflare for new projects, which directly improved customer metrics and reporting reliability.
  • Executed a successful migration of production databases from Heroku to AWS RDS, updating DMS streams to ensure uninterrupted, real-time reporting capabilities for business intelligence.
  • Led the consolidation effort to unify Jenkins and CircleCI resources into a single platform utilizing GitHub, Kubernetes, and AWS, projected to reduce CI/CD maintenance overhead by 15%.

Sr DevOps Engineer / Tech Lead

Heartflow
Austin, TX
10.2018 - 07.2022
  • Led the migration of production and development environments from Cloudflare to AWS WAF and Route53 geo-routing services, which enhanced security posture and optimized routing latency.
  • Managed operations for a massive-scale environment of over 400 instances spanning 4 AWS regions (Production, Training, Development) with high uptime requirements.
  • Recreated over 20 AWS services as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, modules, and Scalr IACP, improving scalability and reliability while standardizing deployment practices.
  • Maintained and optimized the Jenkins and Cloud Build CI/CD pipeline environment for the development SDLC, handling 5 builds per month.

DevOps Lead

Midigator
04.2018 - 09.2018
  • Directed a high-performance DevOps team responsible for deploying and orchestrating over 50 business-critical ECS and Kubernetes services, ensuring platform stability and high-volume transaction processing.
  • Established and governed the core AWS architecture—including Route53, IAM, VPC, ECS, and EKS—by leveraging Terraform and Ansible to create a fully repeatable and highly scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model.
  • Pioneered the standardization of the CI/CD environment across multiple AWS accounts by customizing Jenkins with Packer, Terraform, and Python, reducing environment creation time by 15%.

Sr DevOps Engineer

Magento
Austin, TX
03.2016 - 04.2018
  • Pioneered the comprehensive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy, architecting core AWS services (VPC, IAM, Route53, Lambda) using Terraform with DynamoDB state management, which established enterprise-grade scalability and increased infrastructure management efficiency by 30%.
  • Led the massive-scale automation and orchestration of the company's CI/CD pipeline, provisioning over 1200 Jenkins AWS instances using Packer and Ansible, which delivered 40% improvement in development speed and efficiency and ensured production reliability through instance idempotency.

Sr DevOps Engineer

Rapid7
Austin, TX
09.2015 - 03.2016
  • Governed the operational security and project management environments by creating Chef cookbooks to standardize the installation and management of security software across AWS, while also automating Confluence and JIRA instances to streamline enterprise-wide documentation and issue tracking processes.
  • Optimized the core Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, maintaining and modifying Jenkins jobs using Chef and Berkshelf, which resulted in a measurable improvement in the speed and efficiency of the development process and accelerated time-to-market.

Sr DevOps Engineer

Nextgen/QSI
Austin, TX
02.2014 - 09.2015
  • Spearheaded the architectural deployment of infrastructure scalability by implementing AWS auto-scaling solutions (using Jenkins, CloudFormation, and Python/Boto), which significantly improved the reliability of the production environment and ensured peak performance under load.
  • Streamlined the entire development lifecycle by orchestrating development instances on AWS (via Ansible and Jenkins) and provisioning isolated developer environments (using Vagrant, Docker, and Ansible), which enhanced development velocity while enforcing consistency with the production baseline.

DevOps Engineer

Balfour
Austin, TX
08.2013 - 02.2014
  • Supervised the operational stability and high availability of mission-critical, 24x7 hybrid infrastructure (AWS, VMWare, and on-premise), while concurrently pioneering automated scalability processes using Jenkins, CloudFormation, and Python to streamline releases and significantly improve system reliability and development efficiency.

DataCloud Operations Manager

Pervasive Software Inc.
Austin, TX
03.2012 - 06.2013
  • Directed all Agile/SaaS development and cloud operations, leveraging Python/Boto, Java, and automation scripting to drive continuous service improvement and maximize the stability and feature delivery of the SaaS platform.
  • Managed and led the 24x7 technical support team and operations for the AWS cloud computing environment, ensuring high availability and reliability across the administration of over 200 Linux and Windows servers.

Data Center Engineer

Hewlett-Packard
Austin, TX
11.2010 - 03.2012
  • Performed and maintained over 100 VMWare and vCenter supporting Snapfish Customer portal.
  • Managed support for 25,000 Sq. Ft. Data Center consists of 2500 servers and storage arrays.

IT Technical Lead

StoredIQ
Austin, TX
08.2008 - 08.2010
  • Managed the Systems Administration group that supported over 100 Linux, VMWare, and Windows servers.
  • Supervised and maintained facility support and technical administration of the 24x7 computer centers.

IT Manager

Synchronoss Technologies
Bethlehem, PA
05.2004 - 03.2008
  • Managed a team of 28 people to provide technical support for over 2000 employees in Unix/Linux system administration, database administration, and network engineering.

Sr Manager of IT

RCN
Princeton, NJ
03.2001 - 04.2004
  • Managed a team of 10 to provide technical support for Linux system and database administration.

Development Project Manager

Princeton eCom
Princeton, NJ
03.2000 - 03.2001
  • Managed a team of 25 developers/consultants using Oracle Developer 6i, Oracle 8i, SQL
  • LOADER, c/pro
  • C.

Systems Project Manager

Center For Claims Resolution
Princeton, NJ
03.1996 - 03.2000
  • Managed a team of 11 developers/consultants who performed Oracle development and reporting.

Developer

Galaxy Scientific Corporation
Eatontown, NJ
03.1995 - 03.1996
  • Developed several systems using Oracle Developer 3 and Oracle 7.34 database.

Programmer

The Robert Plan
Somerset, NJ
06.1993 - 03.1995
  • Performed FoxPro development of the insurance claims transaction and underwriting systems.

Education

B.A. - Computer Science

Rutgers College, Rutgers University

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