Hello, I'm Matthew. You can call me Skinner. I'm a father, husband, nerd, and an experienced developer. Outside of work, my passions include golfing, spending time with my family, the Green Bay Packers, and building things.
I spent my childhood summers hacking on things in my grandfather's garage, soldering wires onto the hardware bus of microcontrollers and learning to compile and push my own code down to them. I formed a real passion for building and tech early on and have been fortunate enough to turn that passion into a somewhat successful career.
I spent my early career doing what is now called Full Stack Development. I built a small business around web design and development from 2002 to 2012. From there, I took a small break from tech. I went off to learn about business and management, contracts, procurement, and general business operations.
In 2018, I found my way back to tech. As a developer I thought of my craft as writing code and building applications and not as "data". However, I quickly realized that data is at the core of everything we do in tech. From applications to infrastructure, data is being created, moved, transformed, and stored at every layer. I dove head first into data engineering, data architecture, and cloud architecture. Since then, I have been fortunate enough to work with some amazing teams and companies building enterprise grade data solutions.
Lead teams to build best-in-class data solutions using proven methodologies, open data standards, and next-generation technologies to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. These solutions enable enterprise data to be accessible and ready for Generative AI and AI engineers.
Lead teams in designing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures using GitOps. Skilled in scaling apps, deploying clustered computing standards such as Spark/Trino and implementing resilient stream processing platforms such as Kafka and Flink for modern, AI-ready data platforms.
Comfortable working in multiple programming languages and highly complex projects/environments. Proficient in Python, Bash, and JVM based languages. Competent in Rust, Go, and C/C++. I have a knack for solving complex problems from first principles and building efficient, maintainable solutions.
This certification covered cloud concepts as well as Azure services, solutions, management tools, general security, network security, goverance, and compliance.
This certification covers high level concepts in Snowflake such as how to load and transform data, performance, concurrency, data sharing, account management, and data protection.
This certification covers services and concepts including billing and pricing models, databases, storage, compute, load balancing, auto scaling, security, and logging.