Matt Simmons

Matt Simmons is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Varda Space Industries since May 2023, bringing extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering from SpaceX, where responsibilities included managing the infrastructure for the Starlink ground control plane from August 2015 to February 2023. Prior to that, Matt served as a Lead IT Systems Engineer at SpaceX, focusing on Linux platforms across the organization. From August 2012 to August 2015, Matt worked as a Network, Virtualization, and Research Cluster Administrator at Northeastern University, overseeing network and virtualization infrastructure. Earlier career roles included Event Coordinator at Gestalt IT, IT Administrator at Investor Analytics, LLC, and Software Programmer at Decision One, alongside a tenure as a Columnist for Simple Talk: Exchange.