10 second bio...

Hi, I'm Matt and I'm a Systems Engineer.

I've lived all over the world, first due to my father's work, and later due to my curiosity. NYC, San Francisco, Berlin, Edinburgh, Honolulu, and more.

Most of my career has been consulting for tech companies and helping them speed-up and automate their systems.

Currently, I'm based in Bucharest, Romania and NYC (and often on U.S. timezones regardless of location).

Current Projects

High Velocity Ops

My specialty is helping companies slash their systems costs and speed-up their systems development.

Poor systems can cripple or kill a business. Great systems can scale to billion dollar companies with only a few engineers.

High Velocity Ops is where I teach engineers how to move 5-50X faster with their Ops.

Past Projects

DevOps University

Taste Test: Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible

The book compares the top system automation tools and takes the reader through a simple automation project to show how to implement identical tasks using each tool.

I've released 3 editions of the book so far and it's sold over 2500 copies.

I spent several years writing this as a book. Then I realized it would be much more effective if I taught it in a course format.

So, what started as a book became the training program I now run at High Velocity Ops.

Ansible Weekly

A weekly newsletter about the systems orchestration tool Ansible. I started the newsletter in 2013 and it's had over 5000 subscribers.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland: Europe
Magna Cum Laude
Smith Scholarship / University Scholarship

Some Past Clients

Testimonials

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Projects Featured In

Security Contributions

Basecamp: Customer data leakage

DigitalOcean: Inadvertant SSH key reuse

Carnegie Mellon University: SQL injection vulnerability

Mentions

DevOps Trailblazers (Cloudify)

51 DevOps Influencers (PowerAdmin)

Technical Reviewer

Ansible: Up and Running by Lorin Hochstein

Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

Random Brags ;-)

• Former #1 karma leader in the early days of Hacker News
• Ran the Kansas City marathon (and then ate a full bucket of chicken at the finish line)
• Won the National Geography Bee for my school in 6th grade :D

Contact / Social

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: nanobeep

Hacker News: mattjaynes

Github: nanobeep

LinkedIn: mattjaynes