Matthew Burgess
Infrastructure Lead at Contract
Cramlington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Burgess is an Infrastructure Lead with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering enterprise IT and DevOps solutions, currently driving the automated build-out of a hybrid cloud big data platform. He combines deep systems knowledge—from Proxmox and Hadoop to AWS services like Lambda, RDS and Route 53—with infrastructure-as-code skills in Terraform, Ansible and Concourse to automate server deployments and operational monitoring. His background spans major enterprise environments (IBM, HPE, BT) and includes practical SRE tooling experience with Prometheus, AlertManager and Consul. An active contributor to the Terraform AWS provider, he’s proven at making cloud provider integrations more robust by migrating resources to AWS SDK v2. Based in Cramlington, Matthew brings a pragmatic, code-first approach to scaling analytics platforms and reducing manual toil.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business IT, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business IT at University of Sunderland
German
Github Skills (5)
terraformer10
go10
aws10
terraform10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 75 commits, 169 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to updating the AWS provider for Terraform, specifically focusing on migrating various resources to AWS SDK v2. Their commits involved code changes to the internal package, including the update of specific modules like `aws_vpc_network_interface`, `aws_vpc_default_network_acl`, and `aws_vpc`, and the test cases associated with them. The user's work involved code level changes by adding dependencies, updating the input, and setting the right status codes for testing purposes.
awsterraformterraform-provider
mattburgess/webmencoder
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
An opinionated CLI for converting MPEG to WebM
Contributions:1 release, 25 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 3 months
convertingwebmvideompegcli
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