Mat Branyon
About Mat Branyon
Mat Branyon is a Principal DevOps Engineer at HarperDB, Inc. with extensive experience in system administration, security, and global infrastructure management.
Principal DevOps Engineer at HarperDB
Mat Branyon currently serves as the Principal DevOps Engineer at HarperDB, Inc. In his role, he collaborates closely with Devin Holland, who also holds the position of Principal DevOps Engineer. The team at HarperDB includes other key positions such as Field CTO, SVP of Engineering, and Chief of Staff. The company culture emphasizes values of authenticity, transparency, empowerment, and focus, fostering an environment of radical transparency and acceptance.
Previous Roles and Experiences
Before joining HarperDB, Mat Branyon accumulated diverse experience across various companies and roles. Notably, he worked at Open Raven as a DevOps Engineer from 2021 to 2023 and at PEAK6 as a Senior DevOps Engineer in 2021 for 7 months. He was also a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Bugcrowd between 2019 and 2021, and an Operations Manager at Denhac from 2018 to 2021. His earlier positions include Data Operations Engineer at zvelo, Inc., Application Infrastructure Engineer at ReadyTalk, and roles in system administration and consultancy at companies like Roomlinx, Advanced Computing Tech, and Ntense Technologies, LLC.
Education and Technical Expertise
Mat Branyon graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a degree in Computer Science focused on Cognitive Science, from 2003 to 2007. He is well-versed in BSD/Unix and Linux system administration, specializing in both Debian and Redhat systems. Additionally, he has extensive experience in maintaining service reliability 24/7 with global infrastructure and is committed to security at all levels in system architecture and application development. His skills include geographic load balancing, virtualization technologies like VMware and KVM, and monitoring using tools such as Nagios and Zenoss.
Proficiency in Programming and Technologies
Mat Branyon is proficient in several programming languages, including Perl, Python, golang, bash, and Java. He has extensive experience deploying enterprise-grade firewalls, managing datacenters and SANs, and using a wide range of technologies. Some of the technologies he is skilled in include SSH, VIM, GIT, DNS, Open Source Technologies, Google Apps, LAMP, Tomcat, IPTables, Jira, Jenkins, Bacula, Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, TCPDump, and SNORT.