Matt Eldridge
tel: +1-(XXX) XXX-XXXX | email: XXXX@XXXX.XXX PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE January 2019 - Present
JSTCapital – Financial Services Firm
Quantitative Analyst & Infrastructure Lead
● Work to develop, backtest, and automate trading strategies for digital assets.
● Lead software architect and project manager for a team of junior quants implementing automated
market making processes on 15 trading pairs.
● Manage risk on $500k+ portfolio, automate hedging strategies, develop custom reporting, P/L, and
equity curve visualizations.
● Manage design and implementation of instrumentation for service, application performance, and
system metrics.
● Manage design and implementation of alerting and escalation policies for 24/7 automated trading
activities.
● Manage design and implementation of secret and private key management for multiple digital assets
across hot, warm, and cold wal ets. October 2018 - October 2019
SAP NS2 – National Security Services
SME Kubernetes & Cloud Systems Engineer
● A whol y owned subsidiary of SAP, NS2 serves clients across the national security community of the
United States engaging with multiple Intel igence agencies, the DOD, and the DHS.
● Design, develop, and execute automation for cloud systems deployments using multiple open source
tools.
● Focus on: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker containers, info sec. August 2017 - October 2018
Giphy Inc.
Automation & Cloud Systems Engineer ● Lead engineering teams in migration from monolithic architecture to microservices deployed and scaled
with Kubernetes on AWS.
● Design and implement Giphykube, a dev-environment-in-a-box, al owing developers to go from fresh
instal of macOS to developing on their own copy of the entire Giphy stack on a personal k8s cluster
running on AWS (with ful copies of production SQL data and ES data) in 30 minutes flat.
● Security audit and migration of secrets into highly available vault cluster, additional security
improvements.
● Migrate multiple services from legacy configuration to ful y "containerized". October 2015 - August 2017
IBM Inc.
Developer Advocate & Technical Offering Manager ● Enable clients in the implementation of technical cloud solutions.
● Col ect and aggregate feedback from developer-users of the Bluemix platform, incorporate same into
product iterations.
● Product ownership of IBM Cloud’s container offering.
● Contribute on cross functional team of competing internal implementations (Docker vs Kubernetes) for
IBM's containers-as-a-service offering. January 2015 - September 2015 IBM Inc.
Cloud Advisor ● Frame, innovative, and design cloud solutions that drive tangible business benefits for clients.
● Determine how cloud computing can deliver business value for clients, assess their current cloud
maturity and approach, understand their gaps, define a road map, and accelerate their cloud adoption
journey.
● Understand client’s industry chal enges and opportunities. Starting with client’s senior executives,
communicate with relevant constituencies in the client – business and IT. March 2014 - December 2014 IBM Inc.
Advisory Software Engineer ● Lead development team creating open-source tooling simplifying consumption of SoftLayer IaaS APIs
by developers. Includes fog-softlayer ruby gem and knife-softlayer ruby gem.
● Lead development team creating an automation/orchestration layer (Chef based) for provisioning
OpenStack private cloud instances on SoftLayer bare metal hardware. November 2012 - February 2014 Invoca Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA Cloud Systems Engineer ● Direct report to the CTO, responsible for SaaS platform uptime to meet a five-nines SLA for telephony
systems.
● Engineer zero-downtime rol ing deployments and support operations of telephony platform and Ruby on
Rails app.
● Automate configuration of relational database infrastructure with 12+ replica/slaves.
● Automate backups and disaster recovery systems, automated pruning / backup retention, alerting on
backup age.
● Implement system and application monitoring.
● Use previous Chef experience to lead the company into adopting Chef as a configuration management
system al owing the automation of server provisioning.
● Integrated Chef with Capistrano-based deployment systems. January 2011 - November 2012 Kohort Inc.
New York, NY DevOps Engineer ● Built a service oriented architecture from the ground up.
● Included the use of the AMQP protocol (RabbitMQ, an implementation written in Erlang) to develop
highly scalable services that process queued jobs in an asynchronous non-blocking manner.
● Development included implementation of JSON-based RESTful APIs for internal consumption, load
balancing, and a ful y distributed architecture in the AWS cloud.
● Work on components written in PHP, node.js, Erlang, and Ruby. January 2009 - January 2011 Cambium Group
St. Johnsbury, VT DevOps Engineer ● Position was equal parts development and operations, maintaining approximately 75 clients (mostly
banks and credit unions) on a custom CMS. Position included work with RHEL, load balancing,
memcache, DNS management, email administration. January 2007 - January 2009 Heritage Web Solutions
Provo, Utah Software Engineer ● Freelance work building custom web applications for smal business customers.
● Worked col aboratively with other programmers on larger projects.
● Was top developer on a team of 160 freelance PHP programmers in both sales (dol ars) and
development (projects shipped) for several months running. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE ● Programming Languages [Skil : 1:novice … 10:expert]
○ Ruby [7]
○ PHP [7]
○ Python [8]
○ JavaScript [5]
○ C [2]
○ Erlang [2]
○ Shel Scripting [6]
○ Go [4]
● Networking
○ TCP/IP
○ SMTP
○ SIP/RTP
○ NAT
○ VLANs
○ Iptables / Firewal s
● Datastores:
○ MySQL
○ PostgreSQL
○ Redis
○ MongoDb
● Operating Systems:
○ Ubuntu
○ Mac OS X
○ Red Hat Linux
○ CentOS
○ CoreOS
○ Alpine
○ Boot2Docker
● Other Technologies:
○ Kubernetes
○ Configuration Management and Cloud Automation
■ Chef
■ Puppet
○ AWS
■ EC2
■ RDS
■ S3
■ Cloudfront
■ Cloudwatch (monitoring)
■ Cloudformation (provisioning automation)
■ ELB
■ ES
■ VPC
○ SoftLayer
■ VMs/CCIs
■ Bare Metal Servers
■ Firewal /Gateway Appliances (Vyatta)
■ Software Defined Networking
○ Miscel aneous
■ RabbitMQ
■ SocketIO
■ NodeJS
■ Twilio
■ col ectd
■ statsd
■ Graphite CERTIFICATIONS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
● In the top 2% from a field of >16,000 competitors on the Hack The Box online penetration testing
platform.
○ 8 system owns
○ 10 user owns
○ 91 total points
○ Link to platform profile: https://www.hackthebox.eu/profile/94205 EDUCATION
Vermont Col ege/Union Institute & University
● 2007 B.L.A. – Interdisciplinary perspectives on the effects from lack of access to information
technology among minority populations. OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS
● Projects Created and Maintained
○ fog-softlayer - IBM SoftLayer driver for Fog a multi-cloud abstraction layer written in Ruby.
download mirror: https://rubygems.org/gems/fog-softlayer
source code: https://github.com/fog/fog-softlayer
downloaded over 25,000,000 times
○ knife-softlayer - A Chef Knife plugin for launching, bootstrapping, and managing compute
instances in the IBM SoftLayer cloud.
download mirror: https://rubygems.org/gems/knife-softlayer
source code: https://github.com/softlayer/knife-softlayer
● Projects Contributed To
○ chef-provisioning-fog - Fog driver for chef provisioning, an orchestration framework.
source: https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-fog/
○ fog-core - Core behaviors without API and provider specifics for community fog project
source: https://github.com/fog/fog-core
○ packer-builder-softlayer - A builder plugin for packer.io project.
source: https://github.com/cphrmky/packer-builder-softlayer
○ ibm.github.io - Directory of Open Source IBM projects hosted on Github.
source: https://github.com/cphrmky/ibm.github.io
○ osrcry - Tools for open source project management.
source: https://github.com/geemus/osrcry
○ softlayer-ruby - Ruby sdk for consumption of SoftLayer IaaS.
source: https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-ruby
○ codeignitor-db - Demonstration application assembling a PHP runtime on IBM Bluemix.
source: https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/codeignitor-db
○ rails-ruby-db - Demonstration application providing examples of how to run Rails 3.2 on IBM
Bluemix.
source: https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/ruby-rails-db PRESENTATIONS
● “Lightning Talk” presented at DevOps/Cloud Conference – Austin 2014
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/(XXX) XXX-XXXX9/highlight/500330 [5 min] [video] Matt Eldridge
tel: +1-(XXX) XXX-XXXX | email: XXXX@XXXX.XXX PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE January 2019 - Present
JSTCapital – Financial Services Firm
Quantitative Analyst & Infrastructure Lead
● Work to develop, backtest, and automate trading strategies for digital assets.
● Lead software architect and project manager for a team of junior quants implementing automated
market making processes on 15 trading pairs.
● Manage risk on $500k+ portfolio, automate hedging strategies, develop custom reporting, P/L, and
equity curve visualizations.
● Manage design and implementation of instrumentation for service, application performance, and
system metrics.
● Manage design and implementation of alerting and escalation policies for 24/7 automated trading
activities.
● Manage design and implementation of secret and private key management for multiple digital assets
across hot, warm, and cold wal ets. October 2018 - October 2019
SAP NS2 – National Security Services
SME Kubernetes & Cloud Systems Engineer
● A whol y owned subsidiary of SAP, NS2 serves clients across the national security community of the
United States engaging with multiple Intel igence agencies, the DOD, and the DHS.
● Design, develop, and execute automation for cloud systems deployments using multiple open source
tools.
● Focus on: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker containers, info sec. August 2017 - October 2018
Giphy Inc.
Automation & Cloud Systems Engineer ● Lead engineering teams in migration from monolithic architecture to microservices deployed and scaled
with Kubernetes on AWS.
● Design and implement Giphykube, a dev-environment-in-a-box, al owing developers to go from fresh
instal of macOS to developing on their own copy of the entire Giphy stack on a personal k8s cluster
running on AWS (with ful copies of production SQL data and ES data) in 30 minutes flat.
● Security audit and migration of secrets into highly available vault cluster, additional security
improvements.
● Migrate multiple services from legacy configuration to ful y "containerized". October 2015 - August 2017
IBM Inc.
Developer Advocate & Technical Offering Manager ● Enable clients in the implementation of technical cloud solutions.
● Col ect and aggregate feedback from developer-users of the Bluemix platform, incorporate same into
product iterations.
● Product ownership of IBM Cloud’s container offering.
● Contribute on cross functional team of competing internal implementations (Docker vs Kubernetes) for
IBM's containers-as-a-service offering. January 2015 - September 2015 IBM Inc.
Cloud Advisor ● Frame, innovative, and design cloud solutions that drive tangible business benefits for clients.
● Determine how cloud computing can deliver business value for clients, assess their current cloud
maturity and approach, understand their gaps, define a road map, and accelerate their cloud adoption
journey.
● Understand client’s industry chal enges and opportunities. Starting with client’s senior executives,
communicate with relevant constituencies in the client – business and IT. March 2014 - December 2014 IBM Inc.
Advisory Software Engineer ● Lead development team creating open-source tooling simplifying consumption of SoftLayer IaaS APIs
by developers. Includes fog-softlayer ruby gem and knife-softlayer ruby gem.
● Lead development team creating an automation/orchestration layer (Chef based) for provisioning
OpenStack private cloud instances on SoftLayer bare metal hardware. November 2012 - February 2014 Invoca Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA Cloud Systems Engineer ● Direct report to the CTO, responsible for SaaS platform uptime to meet a five-nines SLA for telephony
systems.
● Engineer zero-downtime rol ing deployments and support operations of telephony platform and Ruby on
Rails app.
● Automate configuration of relational database infrastructure with 12+ replica/slaves.
● Automate backups and disaster recovery systems, automated pruning / backup retention, alerting on
backup age.
● Implement system and application monitoring.
● Use previous Chef experience to lead the company into adopting Chef as a configuration management
system al owing the automation of server provisioning.
● Integrated Chef with Capistrano-based deployment systems. January 2011 - November 2012 Kohort Inc.
New York, NY DevOps Engineer ● Built a service oriented architecture from the ground up.
● Included the use of the AMQP protocol (RabbitMQ, an implementation written in Erlang) to develop
highly scalable services that process queued jobs in an asynchronous non-blocking manner.
● Development included implementation of JSON-based RESTful APIs for internal consumption, load
balancing, and a ful y distributed architecture in the AWS cloud.
● Work on components written in PHP, node.js, Erlang, and Ruby. January 2009 - January 2011 Cambium Group
St. Johnsbury, VT DevOps Engineer ● Position was equal parts development and operations, maintaining approximately 75 clients (mostly
banks and credit unions) on a custom CMS. Position included work with RHEL, load balancing,
memcache, DNS management, email administration. January 2007 - January 2009 Heritage Web Solutions
Provo, Utah Software Engineer ● Freelance work building custom web applications for smal business customers.
● Worked col aboratively with other programmers on larger projects.
● Was top developer on a team of 160 freelance PHP programmers in both sales (dol ars) and
development (projects shipped) for several months running. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE ● Programming Languages [Skil : 1:novice … 10:expert]
○ Ruby [7]
○ PHP [7]
○ Python [8]
○ JavaScript [5]
○ C [2]
○ Erlang [2]
○ Shel Scripting [6]
○ Go [4]
● Networking
○ TCP/IP
○ SMTP
○ SIP/RTP
○ NAT
○ VLANs
○ Iptables / Firewal s
● Datastores:
○ MySQL
○ PostgreSQL
○ Redis
○ MongoDb
● Operating Systems:
○ Ubuntu
○ Mac OS X
○ Red Hat Linux
○ CentOS
○ CoreOS
○ Alpine
○ Boot2Docker
● Other Technologies:
○ Kubernetes
○ Configuration Management and Cloud Automation
■ Chef
■ Puppet
○ AWS
■ EC2
■ RDS
■ S3
■ Cloudfront
■ Cloudwatch (monitoring)
■ Cloudformation (provisioning automation)
■ ELB
■ ES
■ VPC
○ SoftLayer
■ VMs/CCIs
■ Bare Metal Servers
■ Firewal /Gateway Appliances (Vyatta)
■ Software Defined Networking
○ Miscel aneous
■ RabbitMQ
■ SocketIO
■ NodeJS
■ Twilio
■ col ectd
■ statsd
■ Graphite CERTIFICATIONS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
● In the top 2% from a field of >16,000 competitors on the Hack The Box online penetration testing
platform.
○ 8 system owns
○ 10 user owns
○ 91 total points
○ Link to platform profile: https://www.hackthebox.eu/profile/94205 EDUCATION
Vermont Col ege/Union Institute & University
● 2007 B.L.A. – Interdisciplinary perspectives on the effects from lack of access to information
technology among minority populations. OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS
● Projects Created and Maintained
○ fog-softlayer - IBM SoftLayer driver for Fog a multi-cloud abstraction layer written in Ruby.
download mirror: https://rubygems.org/gems/fog-softlayer
source code: https://github.com/fog/fog-softlayer
downloaded over 25,000,000 times
○ knife-softlayer - A Chef Knife plugin for launching, bootstrapping, and managing compute
instances in the IBM SoftLayer cloud.
download mirror: https://rubygems.org/gems/knife-softlayer
source code: https://github.com/softlayer/knife-softlayer
● Projects Contributed To
○ chef-provisioning-fog - Fog driver for chef provisioning, an orchestration framework.
source: https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-fog/
○ fog-core - Core behaviors without API and provider specifics for community fog project
source: https://github.com/fog/fog-core
○ packer-builder-softlayer - A builder plugin for packer.io project.
source: https://github.com/cphrmky/packer-builder-softlayer
○ ibm.github.io - Directory of Open Source IBM projects hosted on Github.
source: https://github.com/cphrmky/ibm.github.io
○ osrcry - Tools for open source project management.
source: https://github.com/geemus/osrcry
○ softlayer-ruby - Ruby sdk for consumption of SoftLayer IaaS.
source: https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-ruby
○ codeignitor-db - Demonstration application assembling a PHP runtime on IBM Bluemix.
source: https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/codeignitor-db
○ rails-ruby-db - Demonstration application providing examples of how to run Rails 3.2 on IBM
Bluemix.
source: https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/ruby-rails-db PRESENTATIONS
● “Lightning Talk” presented at DevOps/Cloud Conference – Austin 2014
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/(XXX) XXX-XXXX9/highlight/500330 [5 min] [video]
