# About

I’m Matthew Mellor, a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with 17+ years in infrastructure and engineering, including 7+ years leading teams and cross-functional initiatives.

I help teams turn complex platform challenges into clear, sustainable systems that are easier to build, operate, and evolve.

I’m based in Texas and focused on cloud and platform engineering.

I’m practical by default: less hype, more outcomes. The systems I aim to build are:

• easy for teams to understand and own
• secure and compliant by design
• automated enough to reduce repetitive toil
• resilient under real production pressure

I enjoy blending leadership with hands-on execution — setting direction, mentoring engineers, and still digging into architecture and implementation details when it counts.

# Expertise

Cloud Infrastructure

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I design and operate cloud environments with reliability, cost awareness, and security in mind, primarily in AWS (plus Azure where it fits).

DevOps & Platform Engineering

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I build internal platform capabilities that help application teams ship faster and safer:

• reusable infrastructure modules
• standardized deployment paths
• secure defaults for new services
• stronger operational visibility

Automation & Delivery

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I reduce friction through modern CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native delivery patterns.

Common tools and patterns:

• Terraform and CloudFormation
• GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines
• AWS Lambda and event-driven serverless workflows
• Docker and ECS/Fargate for containerized services

Networking & Security Mindset

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My networking background shapes how I approach cloud design: connectivity, segmentation, access controls, and secure operations from day one.

Leadership

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I’ve led in both IC and leadership capacities, with a focus on mentoring engineers, aligning cross-functional teams, and delivering durable platform improvements.

# Projects

DevRail FEATURED IN PROGRESS

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• Problem: AI-assisted teams still fight toolchain drift and inconsistent standards across local dev, CI, and agent workflows.
• Outcome: Building an agent-first development standards framework with GitHub/GitLab repo templates so teams can run one consistent make check contract everywhere.
• Stack: Dockerized dev toolchain, Makefile standards, multi-language lint/test/security automation, GitHub + GitLab templates
• Status: In progress (actively evolving)

proxmox_create-cloud-template

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• Problem: Building Proxmox VM cloud templates manually is repetitive and error-prone.
• Outcome: Standardized template creation workflow that speeds up provisioning and reduces drift.
• Stack: Shell, Proxmox VE, cloud-init
• Last updated: Feb 25, 2026

bootstrap-infisical

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• Problem: Standing up a secure self-hosted secrets manager from scratch takes too many manual steps.
• Outcome: Faster, repeatable Infisical bootstrap on fresh Ubuntu, with certificate registration built in to streamline secure setup.
• Stack: Shell, Docker Compose, Ubuntu, Infisical
• Last updated: Feb 6, 2026

bmad-module-infrastructure-devops

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• Problem: The Infrastructure Expansion Pack from BMAD v4 needed to be carried forward into the current v6 module model.
• Outcome: Repackaged the v4 infrastructure expansion pack as an installable custom module for BMAD v6, so teams can adopt it directly in the latest workflow.
• Stack: JavaScript, BMAD module packaging, DevOps workflow templates
• Last updated: Mar 4, 2026

gitlab-env-mgr

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• Problem: Managing GitLab environment variables at scale is tedious and easy to misconfigure manually.
• Outcome: Simplified variable management with safer, more repeatable updates.
• Stack: Python, GitLab API
• Last updated: Oct 7, 2025

bootstrap-supabase NEW

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• Problem: Self-hosted Supabase on Ubuntu is powerful but requires careful setup across 12+ services.
• Outcome: Single idempotent install.sh that deploys the full Supabase stack via Docker Compose — database, auth, REST, realtime, storage, studio, and optional analytics.
• Stack: Shell, Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, Kong, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04
• Status: Active project (built with DevRail standards)

bitbucket-env-mgr

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• Problem: Deployment environment variables in Bitbucket are painful to maintain consistently across repos.
• Outcome: Automated environment variable operations that reduce manual toil and config mistakes.
• Stack: Python, Bitbucket API
• Last updated: Sep 9, 2025

# Contact

If you want to talk cloud platform strategy, DevOps modernization, infrastructure automation, or reliability work, send me a note.

Prefer LinkedIn? Connect with me at linkedin.com/in/mamellor.