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I'm a senior platform engineer passionate about developer productivity, internal tools, and infrastructure that just works. I enjoy building systems that disappear behind the scenes, so engineers can ship safely without becoming infrastructure experts. Over the past decade I've worked deeply in the Kubernetes ecosystem—containers, etcd, DNS, operators, and CoreDNS at scale. The throughline of my work is to make complex systems easier to understand and use by automating repetitive tasks, improving observability, documenting operational paths, reducing cognitive load, and enabling safer workflows around infrastructure changes. I'm excited to apply senior infrastructure experience upstream to create better defaults, safer tooling, and a more ergonomic platform for product engineers.…I'm a senior platform engineer passionate about developer productivity, internal tools, and infrastructure that just works. I enjoy building systems that disappear behind the scenes, so engineers can ship safely without becoming infrastructure experts. Over the past decade I've worked deeply in the Kubernetes ecosystem—containers, etcd, DNS, operators, and CoreDNS at scale. The throughline of my work is to make complex systems easier to understand and use by automating repetitive tasks, improving observability, documenting operational paths, reducing cognitive load, and enabling safer workflows around infrastructure changes. I'm excited to apply senior infrastructure experience upstream to create better defaults, safer tooling, and a more ergonomic platform for product engineers.

Mathew Lowery

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, +2

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I'm a senior platform engineer passionate about developer productivity, internal tools, and infrastructure that just works. I enjoy building systems that disappear behind the scenes, so engineers can ship safely without becoming infrastructure experts. Over the past decade I've worked deeply in the Kubernetes ecosystem—containers, etcd, DNS, operators, and CoreDNS at scale. The throughline of my work is to make complex systems easier to understand and use by automating repetitive tasks, improving observability, documenting operational paths, reducing cognitive load, and enabling safer workflows around infrastructure changes. I'm excited to apply senior infrastructure experience upstream to create better defaults, safer tooling, and a more ergonomic platform for product engineers.…I'm a senior platform engineer passionate about developer productivity, internal tools, and infrastructure that just works. I enjoy building systems that disappear behind the scenes, so engineers can ship safely without becoming infrastructure experts. Over the past decade I've worked deeply in the Kubernetes ecosystem—containers, etcd, DNS, operators, and CoreDNS at scale. The throughline of my work is to make complex systems easier to understand and use by automating repetitive tasks, improving observability, documenting operational paths, reducing cognitive load, and enabling safer workflows around infrastructure changes. I'm excited to apply senior infrastructure experience upstream to create better defaults, safer tooling, and a more ergonomic platform for product engineers.

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I’m a senior platform engineer passionate about developer productivity, internal tools, and infrastructure that just works. I enjoy building systems that disappear behind the scenes, so engineers can ship safely without becoming infrastructure experts.

Over the past decade I’ve worked deeply in the Kubernetes ecosystem—containers, etcd, DNS, operators, and CoreDNS at scale. The throughline of my work is to make complex systems easier to understand and use by automating repetitive tasks, improving observability, documenting operational paths, reducing cognitive load, and enabling safer workflows around infrastructure changes. I’m excited to apply senior infrastructure experience upstream to create better defaults, safer tooling, and a more ergonomic platform for product engineers.

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Sr. MTS, Software Engineer at eBay

February 1, 2022 - Present

Senior backend infrastructure engineer focused on Kubernetes control planes, etcd, DNS, federation, container registry, SRE enablement, and platform automation for one of the industry's largest private Kubernetes fleets. Led container registry migration from proprietary to open-source, eliminating six figures per year in vendor cost. Planned and tested container registry upgrade, rollback, staging, observability, and disaster recovery paths across registry, database, and object store dependencies. Improved APIServer reliability with SRE team, reducing incidents 30% and pager volume 50% by prioritizing SLO signals and follow-up fixes. Rolled out operator-based automation for 100 etcd clusters, reducing manual defragmentation and pod reconciliation toil across production control planes. Improved platform sustainability by cleaning up thousands of obsolete namespaces and six figures worth of stale objects, then defining paths toward continuous garbage collection. Split a monolithic federa

MTS 2, Software Engineer at eBay

May 1, 2016 - February 1, 2022

Built and operated eBay's Kubernetes platform across DNS, federation, control planes, release automation, security hardening, and production support. Developed and operated eBay's Kubernetes platform at 60+ clusters, 30K+ nodes, and 160K+ pods across production environments. Owned Kubernetes DNS systems, including CoreDNS, improving availability, observability, user documentation, and operator runbooks. Tuned CoreDNS to reduce query volume 75%, increase QPS 4x, and cut CPU and memory by 80% and 50%. Built federation control plane automation that made releases GitOps-based, reproducible, version-locked, and safer across multiple control planes. Created credential rotation automation adopted by many control planes, reducing manual, time-sensitive work around expiring secrets. Shifted smoothly to remote infrastructure work, using clear written communication to unblock teams across locations, languages, and time zones.

MTS 2, Software Engineer at eBay

November 1, 2013 - April 1, 2016

Developed database-as-a-service and database failover tooling for eBay infrastructure, with emphasis on testability, operational hardening, and OpenStack-based services. Developed OpenStack Trove-based DBaaS for on-demand MySQL, MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, and Redis datastore provisioning. Hardened database failover tooling by raising test coverage from 0% to 75% with dependency fakes, mocks, and minimal core-code changes. Contributed code, reviews, bugs, documentation, and infrastructure debugging across OpenStack Trove and related OpenStack projects.

X.commerce MTS 1, Software Engineer at X.commerce

April 1, 2012 - November 1, 2013

Built and operated private OpenStack infrastructure on bare metal, with focus on virtual machine availability, cluster operations, and production reliability. Developed and operated private OpenStack services, including Nova, Keystone, Glance, Swift, and Cinder, on bare-metal infrastructure. Led replacement of floating-IP failover with Corosync and Pacemaker clustering, improving VM high availability robustness and test coverage. Built operational expertise in cloud primitives, bare-metal infrastructure, service failover, and production support that later transferred into Kubernetes work.

Pentaho Senior Software Engineer at Pentaho

October 1, 2006 - April 1, 2012

Built core backend platform features for business intelligence products, including artifact repository architecture, security infrastructure, and open-source integrations. Designed and implemented a next-generation secured repository for reports, ETL transformations, and shared BI artifacts across the product suite. Led development of product security components, creating public documentation used by support, training, sales, and implementation teams. Supported customer-facing security engagements by translating complex authorization and repository behavior into practical implementation guidance. Contributed patches, defects, and community support across Spring Security, Apache Jackrabbit, CloudInit, and other open-source projects. Presented at SpringOne Americas on Spring Security usage in Pentaho's product architecture.

Application Software Developer at Wyndham Worldwide

October 1, 2003 - September 1, 2006

Built enterprise web application infrastructure for customer-facing systems, with focus on security, shared services, and reusable application layers. Designed shared security infrastructure for registration, password recovery, and administration across Active Directory and Oracle user stores. Implemented data layer, business facade, and reusable UI components for the company's primary external website. Applied enterprise design patterns to separate shared services from application-specific code and improve reuse across web systems.