Matt Klein

Matt Klein is currently an advisor at Shipa. Prior to that, they were a staff plumber at Twitter, where they were the original author and lead developer of Twitter's proprietary 2nd generation HTTP/SPDY/HTTP2 L7 reverse proxy. Matt was also involved in the architecture/design of software LB techniques, POPs, caching, and other projects all related to efficient edge traffic delivery. Before Twitter, Klein was a senior plumber at Amazon.com, where they were responsible for shipping EC2's initial 10GigE HPC instance types. Matt has also worked with many teams both within AWS (network engineering, hardware engineering, etc.) as well external to Amazon (IHVs, ISVs, etc.). Matt'sinfluence has spanned the entire range from system architecture, project management, QA, to deep performance analysis and bug fixing of Linux kernel and Xen hypervisor issues. Matt is considered an authority on networking architecture and performance issues within EC2. Klein has also developed a distributed, mesh based network testing system that is able to drive synthetic loads and gather complex statistics across EC2’s virtualized capacity. This system is used for qualification as well as real-time performance analysis of EC2’s fleet. Matt has also designed the architecture for integrating novel HW into EC2’s hosting platform to enable new hosting scenarios and increased performance. Lastly, they have also architected cloud scale testing and anti-entropy driven deployment systems that are now in widespread use within AWS and eventually all of Amazon. Klein has over 50 pending patents in the areas of: novel hosting HW, virtual networking, data center management (deployment, auditing, lifecycle workflows, etc.), and IaaS testing.