About

Matthew Davis is a Director and Senior Systems Architect at Moody's Corporation. He is a problem solver who can turn problems into opportunities. He is intensely focused on methodologies that maximize outputs and minimize inputs, and he has set up a mentoring culture that is self-governing and influenced by the strict practice of agile principles. Matthew's approach involves the composition of strategic units that deliver consistent results with discipline and maturity. He attracts exceptionally smart people who can be trusted, and this approach achieves remarkable results. He believes that the proliferation of technology necessitates a paradigm shift in talent acquisition where being multi-disciplined is a pre-requisite, and having a healthy disregard for the status quo is now a stipulation. Matthew is a Kubernetes Administrator and Container Developer at k8.coach. He leverages Kubernetes Engine in all application stacks facilitating rapid application development, infrastructure automation, and increased service availability and delivery. He is competent in provisioning, managing, and deploying multi-cluster Kubernetes Engines from scratch with kubespray and ansible. He manages over ten enterprise Kubernetes Clusters accounting for 70,000+ requests per second spanning 72 nodes, 3 continents on-premise, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS. Matthew is also a Cloud Automation Engineer who takes automation and orchestration seriously. His daily workflows are automated using Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab. With the proliferation of technologies, he uses infrastructure-as-code to facilitate and support rapid application development. He has expert-level experience with Ansible for automation development and systems administration, and he is an expert in configuration and development with CI/CD using Jenkins, Pipelines, and GitLab. He has proven monitoring capabilities for gathering battlefield intel supporting service availability and delivery. Matthew is a Full Stack Microservice Architecture Developer who develops end-to-end enterprise-grade services using Java Spring Boot for microservice implementation requiring real-time messaging with Angular 7 web frontends. He has expert-level Java Spring Boot development and integration for real-time SOA Microservices. He also has expert-level Angular 7 + TypeScript development for frontend technologies on both the desktop and mobile. He has expert-level experience designing and using messaging middleware with RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Spark. Matthew has worked as a Senior Software Architect, Cloud Engineer, and Open Source Contributor at appsoa. He created a new product offering called "The CMDB of DevOps Automation," which is a practical guided approach for environment configuration, credentials management, integration, and deployment pipe-lining and monitoring. He has also