Matt Shannon

About Matt Shannon

I am a Site Reliability Engineer at SpaceX.High-level languages/tools/skills- Python, Java, Bash, Groovy, PowerShell, SQL- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Travis CI- AWS/GCP (VPC, IAM, EC2/GCE, S3/Cloud Storage, EKS/GKE, ECS, ECR/GCR, Lambda, ELB)- Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, Nginx, Apache- Agile, Git, Perforce, Artifactory/AppCenter, Jira/GitHub/Atlassian stack, YAML, JSON, Gitflow/Trunk- Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Hashicorp Vault, Thycotic Secret Server, SonarQube, SOPS, security reviews- CentOS/Ubuntu, Windows Server, troubleshooting/deployments, patching- Publishing to Steam/App Store, Hadoop, npm, microservices, WordPressSpecific competencies (non-exhaustive)- providing consistent build, test, and deployment environments for developers, through Docker, Jenkins and Ansible, particularly for Java/Node.JS projects- containerization and processes-through-code for all tasks, API/webhooks- encouraging and maintaining a well-defined flow for new features to reach DEV, STG, and ultimately PROD- ensuring rapid CI/CD for all branches through automated builds, including unit/integration testing, static code analysis/security scans, Docker image builds and deployment to a central repo, parallel app deployment and end-to-end integration testing- deployment orchestration through Ansible, Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes-(internal) customer support through deployments, releases, hotfixes- secret and artifact management through central services (e.g, Secret Server, Artifactory, IDM, AD)- alert and monitoring for all environments (Ambari, Splunk, Grafana.)- idempotent server management through Ansible, troubleshooting in all environments- documentation and development of roadmaps for DevOps initiativesPreviously, I was a DevOps Engineer at Global Relay in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I supported a ~16-person team utilizing large Hadoop clusters, annually processing data at the PB scale. I worked closely with Devs and SDET/QA engineers for rapid software development (build, test, deploy, automated pipelines and webhooks).Before that, I was a professional astrophysicist, having completed a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA Ames and my PhD at the University of Western Ontario. My scientific expertise has been in data analysis, Python development, original research, writing, and collaboration.

Experience

1. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   SpaceX

   Nov 2024 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

Education

• Western University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy

  2012 — 2016

• Western University

  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Astronomy

  2011 — 2012

• University of Victoria

  BSc, Physics and Astronomy

  2007 — 2011