Matthew Bragg

Professional Summary

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience designing and implementing custom automation, security, and performance solutions. Proven ability to save millions in hardware costs, slash project timelines by up to 99%, and reduce manual labor requirements by over 500% through innovative scripting and process optimization.

Experience

DevOps Engineer

USAF | 2020 - 2026 | Ft. Meade, MD

Provided customized software solutions to enhance and streamline data-analysis environments.
Created 150 programs / 42,000 lines of code to automate daily work-flows reducing man-hour requirements by 500%.
Isolated point of failure for long-standing network issue, generated and deployed remedial software solution which prevented roughly 75 instances of work-stoppage per day.
Located critical hardware instability affecting the CPU of over 3000 workstations, calculated and implemented a voltage control curve to fully mitigate the defect saving $5,000,000 in equipment costs and an estimated 4-6 months of vendor coordination for replacements.
Developed first-ever tool for remotely imaging Linux desktops on Legacy boot, preventing over 8000 hours of manual labor, saving $400,000 in travel costs, and slashing the timeline for the full-network OS upgrade by 99%.
Forged internal server and client end software for agent based network monitoring which uses 80% less network traffic, ingests data 500% faster, and retrieves data nearly 1000% faster, when compared to similar commercial tools.
Lead and coordinated a 12-man team with the goal of decommissioning nearly 4,000 EOL devices and installing replacement hardware, completing the objective six months ahead of schedule.
Identified over 50 critical security vulnerabilities on a secure network and produced mitigation strategies or procedures for each one, completely negating all security risks.

Education

Bachelor’s of Computer Science

Western Governor’s University

Expected Graduation: 2026

Certifications

CompTIA Security+

Issued: 2020

LPI Linux Essentials

Issued: 2024