Data Engineering
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.
Hello I'm
Matthew Skinner
Data Engineering | Cloud Architecture | Development
- mshskinner@gmail.com
- (615) 674-9177
- Nashville, TN
About Me
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 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 short break from tech to learn business and management, contracts, procurement, and operations.
In 2018, I found my way back to tech. I quickly realized that data is at the core of everything we do in software and infrastructure, and I dove head first into data engineering, data architecture, and cloud architecture.
Leading Data Engineering TeamLeading Cloud Engineering TeamSRE/SDR FunctionsCloud Platform EngineeringKubernetesCrossplaneCiliumKyvernoEnvoyEnvoy AI GatewayKubeflowAI Inference ServicesMLOpsMachine LearningReinforcement LearningModel Fine-TuningData EngineeringData ArchitectureStreaming Data PlatformsSparkKafka/FlinkPythonTerraform/IaCGitOpsAzure/AWS/GCPPlatform ReliabilityAnd More...
What I Do
Cloud Architecture
Design scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures using GitOps, clustered compute standards such as Spark/Trino, and resilient stream processing platforms such as Kafka and Flink.
Development
Work across multiple programming languages and highly complex environments to build efficient, maintainable solutions grounded in first-principles problem solving.
Education
Data Analytics & Visualization Bootcamp
Vanderbilt University
2019-2020
Completed an intensive certificate program covering data wrangling, visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
AAS in Business Administration and Management
Volunteer State Community College
2006-2007
Associate of Applied Science in Business Administration and Management.
Diploma
White House High School
2000-2003
2004 Graduate - Technical Path.
Work Experience
Senior Manager, Data Engineering & Architecture
Elastic, Inc.
May 2022 - Present
Managing Data Engineering and Architecture teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.
Data Analytics Architect
Pluralsight, Inc.
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Enterprise cloud architecture for insights, data engineering, data science, and machine learning.
Principal, Data & Integration Architect
LP Building Solutions
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Enterprise cloud data architecture and application integration.
Principal, Business Intelligence Developer
LP Building Solutions
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Corporate finance, logistics, supply chain, and operational data modeling and reporting.
Owner
SkinnerDev.com
Aug 2002 - Dec 2012
Full stack web and mobile app development.
Continued Learning
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Covered cloud concepts, Azure services, security, governance, and compliance.
Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification
Covered data loading and transformation, performance, concurrency, sharing, and data protection.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Covered services and concepts for pricing, compute, storage, networking, security, and logging.