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Matt Vaughn
robot tamer
A lifelong technologist with extensive software and systems engineering
experience; trained in DevOps approaches to deployment and lifecycle
management of custom applications on a variety of platforms and scales.
1403 Cole Mill Road
Durham, North Carolina 27705
(716) 393-9663
m.raymond.vaughn@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/mattrvaughn
EXPERIENCE
Echo360 ​OCTOBER 2014—NOVEMBER 2015
Systems Administrator: Reston, VA
Minimized risk of data loss to hosted customers using Zadara NAS, distributed
file systems, and AWS S3 sync for instant disaster recovery
Maintained a configuration management and provisioning repository
controlling hundreds of EC2 instances built on SaltStack and Python
Automated big data workflows using ephemeral cloud compute resources
Configured and maintained software build systems for continuous integration,
acceptance tests, and automated deployments
Optimized and monitored performance of SaaS applications utilizing real-time
analytics engines
Planned and deployed self-healing, full-mesh IPSec VPN routing between nine
static VPC networks for management and backend traffic based on Libreswan
Echo360 ​AUGUST 2008—OCTOBER 2014
Technical Support Engineer: Dulles, VA
Diagnosed and resolved customer issue reports on a small team serving
hundreds of higher education institutions worldwide
Deployed and managed enterprise-grade virtualization infrastructure
Configured baseline machine images as resources for issue reproduction and
testing
Advised customers and deployment engineers in best practices for SQL
database performance and lifecycle maintenance
Colgate University ​SEPTEMBER 2004—AUGUST 2008
Digital Media Technician: Hamilton, NY
Developed and implemented an automated video transcoding workflow using
open-source tools to replace costly proprietary engines
Edited instructional audio and video resources for faculty and staff
Digitized degrading library assets
Responsible for organizing and cataloging streamable media
EDUCATION
Colgate University ​SEPTEMBER 2004—AUGUST 2008
BA, English Literature, Creative Writing: Hamilton, NY
SKILL SETS
Operating Systems: Windows,
GNU/Linux, Mac OS, Android
Configuration and source control
management
Hardware virtualization
Database management and tuning
Datacenter installation and
hardware maintenance
Software compilation and
ABI management
Amazon AWS and cloud tools
Command-line scripting and
low-level system interaction
Automation and continuous
testing frameworks
Web front-end technologies
Network configuration, topology,
traffic analysis, routing, and
essential domain services
Service health monitoring and
software performance analytics
Federated authentication
TOOLBOX
Linux distros: RHEL, CentOS, Debian,
Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch
Windows Server, Active Directory
Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Shell, *SQL,
Hadoop/Hive, DynamoDB, ElastiCache,
Tcl/Expect, Rspec, Gradle, Cucumber,
Jenkins-CI, Wireshark, Cisco ADSM,
IPSec, X.509, LDAP, Kerberos, PKI,
SAML, Ansible, SaltStack