Matt Mencel
Site Reliability Engineer - Tech Lead
About
Matt lives and works in Western Illinois. He earned a degree from Western Illinois University and spent 5 years in the United States Marine Corps. He's been remotely working at WorkBoard since June 2021. During his time at WorkBoard his work has focused on Azure infrastructure automation, application deployment via CI/CD, and container orchestration in Kubernetes. These days he passes the time working with tools like Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to help deliver better software.
Work Experience
June 2021 – Present
Site Reliability Engineer - Tech Lead
https://www.workboard.com/company/
Highlights
- Deploy globally available Azure infrastructure & containerized application solutions
- Support product engineering deployment of containerized workloads to Kubernetes using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Action Workflows
- Design and build automation tooling for automated testing and deployment across multiple environments and regions
- Lead the engineering organization in how to build and deliver the WorkBoard product using industry best practices
February 2018 – May 2021
Senior Cloud Automation Engineer - SRE
https://www.10thmagnitude.com/our-story/
Highlights
- Plan, analyze, design, and deploy enterprise scale Azure infrastructure & application delivery solutions
- Guide and support enterprise customers in their deployment of Azure resources using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines
- Design and build automation tooling for enterprise customers for application testing and deployment via CI/CD across multiple environments and regions
- Mentor for internal 10M and customer engineers around Terraform use and best practices
September 2002 – February 2018
SysAdmin & Server Team Manager
https://www.wiu.edu/about/
Highlights
- Supported several hundred RHEL, Ubuntu, Solaris, and Windows systems (virtual and bare metal) across multiple sites
- Used Chef configuration management and deployment automation to manage systems, including a CI pipeline using Gitlab and CI runners in Kubernetes
- Setup monitoring and visualization stack including Sensu, Graphite, and Logstash (ELK)
January 1999 – August 2002
IT Consultant
Highlights
- Provided IT Consulting to regional small to medium sized businesses and government entities
January 1994 – December 1998
Sergeant
Highlights
- Served in a 'Signals Intelligence' unit and held a top secret SCI clearance
- Multiple overseas deployments
Contact
210 Chesapeake Rd
Colchester, Illinois IL 62326 US
(309) 333-6056
Education
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1989 1993
Western Illinois University
Bachelor of Science
Liberal Arts, CS Emphasis
Skills
SRE / Platform Engineering
Master
Microsoft Azure
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes (AKS)
Helm
FluxCD/ArgoCD
SCM (Git, GitHub)
GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps
Linux
Monitoring (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana)
System Administration
Intermediate
Configuration Management
VMware
Directory Services
Email Systems
Databases
Windows Server
Logging, Monitoring, and Visualization
Message Queueing
Programming
Intermediate
Ruby
Bash
Programming
Beginner
Golang
Interests
Gaming
Board
Turn-Based Strategy
Travel