About
Hey folks, I’m Matt Jaynes — I help companies make their systems fast, secure, and scalable. Big advocate for Ruthlessly Simple Systems and building from First Principles.
See below for highlights of my past work and feel free to email me with any questions.
Email: [email protected]
Author
• Taste Test: Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible
3 editions, over 2500 sold
— InfoQ Review and Interview
— GoodReads Reviews
Community
• Created the Ansible & Friends Newsletter
• Former #1 karma leader of Hacker News
Notable Past Customers
— Entertainment —
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— Education / Research —
— Technology —
Education
B.S. in Computer & Information Science
University of Maryland: European Division
Magna Cum Laude / Smith Scholarship / University Scholarship
Security Contributions
Customer data leakage
Errant SSH host key reuse
SQL injection vulnerability
Mentions
Technical Reviewer
• Ansible: Up and Running by Lorin Hochstein
• Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
Testimonials
From some of my past clients, colleagues, and contractors...
"Matthew is a great engineer and working with him has been a pleasure. He focuses on the present while still looking beyond current challenges. He is a great problem solver! If given a chance, I would love to work with him again in the future."
-Gaurav Sharma
"As I've said before, Matthew is your dream collaborator. Great communication and knows exactly what he wants. Just do your job and do it well, and he will treat you right!"
-Danalyn West
"Matthew is an incredibly level-headed, hard-working, and intelligent coworker. No matter what was going on around him, he was always able to prioritize and finish the projects put before him, as well as find time to brainstorm on ways to improve upon current products."
-Kelly Bruce
"Matthew is very knowledgeable, skilled, and an all-around great guy. He brought much-needed organization to our development team and his expertise with high-traffic web services got us on the right path towards building a more reliable and scalable infrastructure. Matt also took the extra effort to make sure we had all the resources we needed and were able to work to the best of our abilities."
-Dan Simon
"Matthew was awesome! With nothing but heart and hours, Matthew lead a team of student programmers, including Erich Pletsch, as they launched several sites and pages for the student body. He was a model of efficiency and effort. It was a pleasure being on his team."
-John P. Gambee
"Matthew is a great communicator with a strong work ethic. I was privileged to work with Matthew on several projects and was impressed by his ability to manage relationships with various stakeholders and clearly communicate expectations."
-Erich Pletsch
"This is the most professional and longest customer I've worked with. Thanks so much, Matt, I hope we will be able to work together again soon."
-Bang Ly Tieu
"Matthew is a forward thinker and made invaluable changes to the structure of our organization, leading to greater productivity. Matthew is also a pleasure to work with."
-Sunde Johnson
"Matthew is a pleasure to be around and work with. He has a broad technical knowledge and is an excellent problem solver. He knows how to execute a project to completion while working with a wide variety of people."
-Joseph Russell
"Matthew is a great senior engineer and a manager of other engineers. An asset in any engineering organization or project."
-Chris Mohney
"Each project was completed successfully and the results were always better than anticipated. As this was all new to us, Matthew brought outside ideas and methods that were incorporated into the process and spread his knowledge and experience simultaneously to his coworkers. He fit in well and was an asset to the department and the company. I certainly recommend Matthew to any company that needs experienced talent that can think inside and outside the box."
-Michael Curry
"Read the requirements carefully and you will get the best client ever. Great communication, clear requirements, awesome experience. Totally recommended."
-Sergey Tyurin
"From the very beginning it became clear that Matthew Jaynes is the kind of client you always look forward to working with. Being in software business himself, he knows all the intricacies of the process, clearly states his expectations and has the vision of success. Working with Matthew was always a breeze and nothing would please me more than to work with him again more and more in the years to come."
-Aleksey Gureiev
"I enjoyed working with Matthew. He always gave clear and detailed instructions on the required tasks and set reasonable and flexible deadlines. Communication was easy and pleasant. Thank you Matt."
-Mareike Kraatz
"Matt is a great collaborator. It was a pleasure to work with him. I would like to advise anybody who has opportunity to work with him to go ahead and do it."
-Dmitry Timofeev
"Very good client with clear requirements and great availability. It was a pleasure to work with him."
-Vasiliy Kaygorodov
"It was great working with Matthew. He gave very clear instructions and was very cooperative. I will definitely work with him again if there is any opportunity."
-Brinda Kuligod
"It was great to work for him. He gave clear instructions with reasonable deadlines. Communication was easy. I would love to work for him again in the future."
-Max Dunkerley
"Matt is a great employer and CTO expert. I hope I will have the chance to work with him again."
-Chon Minh
"The project was well documented and requirements were spelled out in great detail making it very easy for me to deliver exactly what was expected and within the desired timeframe."
-Dhruva Sagar
"Thank you for a great experience! I would love to work with you again anytime."
-Oleksandr Trokhymchuk
"Awesome experience working on this project. There was great communication, a lot of patience since I asked a lot of questions, and openness. So yeah, it was a pleasure developing for Matt, and I look forward to doing it again."
-Favio Leon
"Matt is a great person and a great programmer. I've learnt a lot from him, really learnt a lot. Thank you!"
-Zakarias Santanu
"Matt is always the best client that I want to work for. Thank you very much for all the pleasant time we've spent working together. I hope we can collaborate on future projects —I would love to make time for that. Thanks!"
-Bang Ly Tieu
"I enjoyed working on this project. During our interview Matthew was open about the challenges of this project. During the project he was friendly, efficient, and helpful, and the work was interesting. I would not hesitate to work with Matt again in the future."
-Johnathon Wright