Hello I'm

Matthew Skinner

Data Professional




Matthew, Allison, & Devin

About Me

Hello, I’m Matthew, an experienced small business owner previously owning and operating SkinnerDev.com, a full-service web design & development company.

I have a versatile background that highlights extensive experience in technology product development, ops management, procurement, budget/cost control as well as techical development skills such as Devops practices, CI/CD, Cloud Ops, and goverance.

Since 2018, I have been developing enterprise-level reporting, integrations, cloud data architecture, data goverance as well as helping to optimize IT infrastructure. In that time I have developed many skills such as:

  • Azure/AWS/GCP
  • Terraform/IaC
  • Git & CI/CD
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Go
  • Snowflake
  • FiveTran
  • Stitch
  • Meltano
  • dbt
  • SQL & NoSQL
  • Visualization
  • System Integrations
  • MDM
  • And More...
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What I Do

Data Integration

I build integrations using cutting edge tech, prove the value of enterprise grade solutions, and ensure high availability so my constituents get exactly what they need, when they need it.

Cloud Architecture

I leverage and optimize cloud tools including micro-services, distributed architecture, cross region & cross cloud availability all while optimizing cost and minimizing down time.

Development

I am comfortable developing custom solutions with high levels of complexity. Including, real time continous integration and deployment to react to the ever changing needs of the customer.

Education

Data Analytics & Visualization Bootcamp
Vanderbilt University

2019-2020

Intensive 6 month certification that spans multiple coding languages, both declarative and imperative approaches to development as well as prescriptive and descriptive analysis of varying data sets. Primary technologies include, but are not limited to Python, SQL, JavaScript (D3, React, Chart.js) and API Development with Django.

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

Manager, Enterprise Data Architect
Elastic, Inc.

May 2022 - Present

    Managing enterprise wide data architecture that supports Elastic's analytics functions.

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 - April 2021

    Enterprise Cloud Data Architecture and Application Integration

Principal, Business Intelligence Developer
LP Building Solutions

Nov 2018 - Feb 2020

    Executive, Corporate Level Finance, Logistics, Supply Chain, & Operational Data Modelling & Report Development

Owner
SkinnerDev.com

Aug 2002 - Dec 2012

    Full Service Web Design, Development & Servicing

Continued Learning

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

This certification covered cloud concepts as well as Azure services, solutions, management tools, general security, network security, goverance, and compliance.

Snowflake Snowpro Core Certification

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.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

This certification covers services and concepts including billing and pricing models, databases, storage, compute, load balancing, auto scaling, security, and logging.