I'm Curtis Mattoon

My Resume

I'm a skilled technologist and emergency responder who brings a unique blend of technical expertise and critical care experience to any challenge. My background includes automating cloud infrastructure and ensuring its security, as well as providing emergency medical services in diverse environments. I excel at diagnosing issues and mitigating risks, whether designing secure cloud systems or leading emergency response efforts. My passion for continuous learning, particularly in cybersecurity and AI, drives me to seek innovative solutions and improve outcomes through systems-level understanding.
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Many people are using AI to read and write resumes, so I thought I'd take a different approach. This RAG-based approach has access to my resume and some other context and has been instructed to pitch me to hiring managers who paste a job description in the box below. Please note that this is a very basic implementation using PHP's curl_exec to make calls to OpenAI gpt-3.5-turbo, so it's far from perfect.

Experience

Sr. DevOps Engineer

DigitalLumens / OSRAM / SiteWorx Software (Boston, MA)

2019–2025

Led AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure for IoT platform; built internal tools in Go; owned security, CI/CD, and M&A integration.

DevOps Technician

Entic / Aquicore (Cambridge, MA)

2018–2019

Maintained IoT data pipelines; migrated legacy systems to Docker; assisted with SOC 2 compliance and cloud cost reduction.

DevOps Engineer

SSI / ResearchNow (Shelton, CT)

2017

Refactored Jenkins pipelines and AWS workflows for a global survey platform; introduced infrastructure-as-code practices.

Remote (Wilderness) Paramedic

Independent Contractor (Remote solar & wind sites throughout US)

2016-2017

Full-Stack Developer

Clayton Kendall (Pittsburgh, PA)

2012–2016

Built and deployed custom LAMP apps for e-commerce and internal ops; later took over infrastructure and deployment tooling.

Paramedic/Rescue Technician

Various (Pittsburgh, PA)

2008-2016

EMS Instructor

Community College of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, PA)

2007-2016

EMT-Basic

Various (Pittsburgh, PA)

2004-2008

Technologies

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Docker + Kubernetes

AI Risk & Ethics

Python

PHP 4/5

Ansible / Terraform / Puppet

Packer / EC2 Image Builder

PHP 7/8

Trivy / Grype / SonarQube / BlackDuck

MySQL / Postgres

AI/ML Literacy

EDR / SentinelOne

SIEM / Wazuh

InfluxDB / TimescaleDB

Neo4J / GraphQL

Cybersecurity / Compliance Frameworks

Pinecone / Weaviate

JavaScript

Microsoft Azure

C / C++ / Java

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Keras / PyTorch / TensorFlow

Ruby / R / COBOL

Education

I became an EMT-B in 2004, completed Wilderness EMT and Fire Academy in 2005, graduated from high school in 2006, and attended WPHSON. I took liberal arts courses through Clarion University and completed CCAC’s Paramedic program in 2007–2008. I’ve also done hundreds of hours of specialty training—HAZMAT, technical rescue, EVOC—and regularly recertify in courses like ACLS, PALS, NRP, and PHTLS.

I taught myself to code through books and homelab projects, eventually landing my first job as a Jr. PHP Developer. After being invited to Google FooBar, I got serious—studying algorithms, reading core texts, and grinding LeetCode. I now take regular courses on Coursera, DeepLearning.ai, and Pluralsight.

My current focus includes AI/ML, data science, cybersecurity, and cloud—building toward a DIY mini-MBA. I’m also a certified partner/reseller for AWS, Microsoft, GitLab, SentinelOne, and others, working through vendor training and certs.

Certifications

Specializations

Security: A Comprehensive Approach

Illinois Tech

(approx. 133 hours)

Explainable AI

Duke University

(approx. 35 hours)

Machine Learning

Stanford University

(approx. 94 hours)

AI for Cybersecurity

Johns Hopkins University

(approx. 35 hours)

Cyber Security: Technology and Governance Specialization

University of London

(approx. 112 hours)

Homeland Security and Cybersecurity Specialization

University of Colorado

(approx. 39 hours)

Cloud Computing Law Specialization

Queen Mary University of London

(approx. 50 hours)

Intuit Bookkeeping Certificate

Intuit

(approx. 65 hours)

Open-Source Projects

cmattoon/aws-ssm

An early Golang project I wrote, mostly as an exercise in learning Go. It allows users to declaratively map SSM Parameter Store keys to Kubernetes Secrets, and with 500k+ downloads, was an early method of secret management in Kubernetes.

cmattoon/chartfiller

A Chrome browser extension I wrote to provide high-quality default/normal values for assessment findings, like documenting Lung sounds clear and equal bilaterally instead of Normal. It also automated/templated boilerplate statements in the activity log.

cmattoon/external-dns

I've contributed a few fixes to external-dns, including the ability to do inverse or negative domain matches (PR #835).

derailed/k9s

I've used k9s since the early days and have contributed a few fixes and an internal fork that provided detailed information on TLS certificate secrets

cmattoon/xhprof-graph

An experiment in storing xhprof (PHP) profiling information in a graph model

cmattoon/conntrackr

Another early Golang tool used to debug connection tracking tables in Kubernetes; required adding the feature to shirou/gopsutil

News Post

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