MATT WALTER

Software Engineer

• Supported customers in classified environments as a DevOps engineer, operating Kubernetes clusters and Greymatter's zero trust service mesh platform for mission-critical workloads.
• Managed deployments, upgrades, and production troubleshooting for Greymatter installations, helping teams maintain secure service connectivity across complex Kubernetes environments.
• Built service discovery systems and Envoy filter capabilities powering secure, policy-aware communication across Kubernetes-based platform environments.
• Designed and implemented full-stack product features across UI workflows, backend APIs, and observability systems for managing complex service mesh infrastructure.
• Fully migrated the main web app from an internal deprecated UI component library to shadcn/ui, modernizing core interface patterns and improving frontend maintainability.

Cyber Security Research Assistant

• Researched the detection and prevention techniques of IoT botnet DDOS attacks, and developing a framework for classifying such attacks.
• Won the regional National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition as team co-captain and Linux captain, becoming the first South Carolina school to reach nationals.

Software Engineer Intern

• Worked on machine learning product applications, contributing to customer-facing features and internal product tooling.
• Migrated and expanded CI/CD pipelines to streamline releases, reduce manual developer effort, and improve delivery reliability.

Data Science Intern

• Supported data center and database IT operations, helping maintain internal systems used by business teams.
• Wrote Python scripts to scrape, clean, and organize operational data for business reporting and decision-making workflows.

BS, Computer Science