About

Matt Herrick is a skilled Director of Software Engineering with over 22 years of relevant experience in the field. His diverse background and strong sense of ownership make him a reliable professional with excellent communication skills. Matt's expertise lies in devops and AWS, with a focus on Terraform and Kubernetes. Currently, Matt is working as the Director of Software Engineering at healthec, llc. In this role, he manages devops, internal IT, Database Administration, and compliance. He maintains a hands-on technical role alongside his management duties. Matt has previously worked as a Sr. Cloud Engineer at zego (powered by paylease) and a Senior Cloud Engineer at Hitachi. At these companies, he was responsible for building secure, reliable, and automated AWS cloud infrastructure. He worked with DevOps, Linux system administration, monitoring, Kubernetes (EKS), and Ansible. Matt also wrote helm charts to support bootstraps and Jenkins automation using JCASC, scripted groovy pipelines, seed jobs, and shared Jenkins libraries. Matt's experience also includes working on a standardization team to design processes, tools, and oversight for the Hitachi Cloud Automation Platform. He has managed git repositories and written documentation in Confluence and markdown. Additionally, he has worked as part of a team to develop automated customer environments on AWS and Azure, including VPCs with private networking, AKS and EKS clusters, Consul, Harbor, and Artifactory. Matt holds a degree in Mass Communication/Media Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. His tech stack includes AWS, DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, PHP, Azure, infra, CI/CD, Ruby, and Kafka. With his extensive experience and skills, Matt is a valuable asset to any organization.