20,000+ subscribers→~6,000 ports→billions of queries/day→exabytes
FIG. 01SPOTLIGHTOn duty at exabyte scale.
ORACLE · CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURENOW
Sr. Site Reliability Developer — OCI Object Storage
Production operations for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Object Storage — reliability engineering, automation, and Sev-1 incident leadership for some of the largest workloads on the planet.
"NautobotGPT amplifies our expertise, reduces rework, and drives faster, more confident decisions across the team."
— MATTHEW SCHWEN
Where Matthew has worked
Employers and roles held, not clients of Schwen Scalability. Company names and marks belong to their owners and are shown to describe where the work was done — they do not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation.
FIG. 02SERVICESSix ways to put me to work.
Every engagement is scoped like an SRE plans a migration: explicit, measurable, reversible. AI is the headline — reliability is the product.
Site Reliability EngineeringKeeping systems boring since 2006.WHERE THIS WORK WAS DONE›
Twenty years of keeping systems boring — from fiber NOCs to exabyte-scale Object Storage at Oracle. SLOs that mean something, incident response that finds root cause, automation that removes the 3am page instead of snoozing it. Reliability isn't a feature; it's the product your customers never have to think about.
AI Systems & ModelsComplex AI that survives production.WHERE THIS WORK WAS DONERnBySYNAPSE · OSS›
How I build complex AI that survives production: multi-agent orchestration with shared memory, RAG with cited answers, knowledge graphs over messy documents, MCP tool integrations — and evals that tell the truth about whether any of it works.
Infrastructure at Scale, using AIThe Humana playbook — infrastructure that runs itself.WHERE THIS WORK WAS DONE›
AI-assisted infrastructure operations — the playbook that made the trade press: turn workflow automations into prompts, wire a source-of-truth, and let systems self-service. Networks, cloud, and data centers that run themselves on rails.
ConsultingSenior technical judgment, on demand.WHERE THIS WORK WAS DONESaltBotCHESS›
Architecture reviews, AI strategy, build-vs-buy calls, and the hard conversations about what your system actually needs — from someone who has to live with the consequences of decisions like yours every day.
Deliverables
Architecture & AI strategyBuild-vs-buy decisionsHands-on, not slideware
ARCHITECTURE REVIEWS · STRAIGHT ANSWERS
PartnershipsInside your team, carrying the pager with you.WHERE THIS WORK WAS DONECarrierOSChekkd›
Embedded technical partner or fractional CTO — the CarrierOS model. I sit inside your team, own core systems engineering, and carry the pager with you.
Deliverables
Fractional CTOCore systems ownershipLong-horizon engagement
EMBEDDED IN YOUR TEAM · CARRYING THE PAGER
Start-upsZero-to-one, one-to-scale — and the diligence in between.WHERE THIS WORK WAS DONEChekkdRnByLaunchWatch›
Zero-to-one and one-to-scale: MVPs shipped in weeks on the standard stack, growth architecture when it works — and technical due diligence for the VCs writing the check.
Deliverables
MVP → productionScaling architectureTechnical due diligence for VCs
MVP IN WEEKS · BUILT TO SCALE AFTER
FIG. 03THE WORKShipped and still standing.
Products I founded, built for clients, or engineer inside as a technical partner — live from production, plus an open-source shelf.
№10 · PASSION PROJECT — IN STEALTH"In The Beginning" — a new AI productFounded and building now, heads-down. Details over a call — happy to demo under NDA.Ask me about it ↗
Twenty years across networks, reliability, and product engineering. Open any role for the detail.
SCALE OF SYSTEMS OPERATEDORDINAL — NOT TO SCALE
20,000+FTTH subscribersMstar · UTOPIA
~6,000network portsAdobe
billionsqueries per dayThe Trade Desk
exabytesobject storageOracle OCI
OracleSr. Site Reliability Developer — OCI Object StorageNASHVILLE, TNNOW›
Exabyte-scale production operations, reliability engineering, and automation for OCI Object Storage — keeping some of the largest workloads on the planet boring.
Set and executed the strategy for Humana's enterprise network-automation program while leading a team of senior engineers — automated pipelines across Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and Ansible; a Nautobot source-of-truth self-service platform; modernization across hundreds of vendors and geographies. Featured in Network World; keynoted the ONUG AI Networking Summit.
Customer-onboarding and communications platform, co-founded with my brother and a close friend. Four-plus years wearing every hat — engineering, product, design, recruiting, fundraising, and marketing — from zero through growth.
The Trade DeskStaff Software Engineer — Network Reliability Engineering›
Ad-tech infrastructure serving billions of queries a day. Designed a scalable AWX automation framework on Kubernetes (EKS) used by teams across the company; built and ran a fully automated Cumulus Linux/eBGP network spanning internal WAN, AWS Direct Connects, and Azure ExpressRoutes; custom Go + GoBGP load balancers; zero-touch provisioning. Promoted Sr. SRE → Staff.
COMPUTER SCIENCE — UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX · FULL RÉSUMÉ ON REQUEST
FIG. 05PRODUCTSSchwen Managed Platform, only pay for what runs.
Choose only the managed services your project needs. The portal, project brain, code repository, and API foundation are included with every project, and your selections are quoted with you in the intake.
INCLUDED WITH EVERY PROJECT✓ API Foundation✓ Code Repository✓ Project Brain✓ Customer Portal
Systems don't fail at the pieces — they fail where the pieces meet. So the joints are what I engineer first.
Where the auth meets the database. Where the agent meets the tool. Where the demo meets production. Twenty years of keeping systems alive — from fiber NOCs to exabyte-scale cloud storage — taught me that lesson on repeat, and Schwen Scalability is where I apply it for founders and operators.
I lead every engagement personally — and I don't work alone. Behind me is a bench of senior developers and specialists. The person who architects your system still writes the code, runs the deploy, and answers the phone.
Two home bases — and on the road a lot
FRANKLIN, TNLEHI, UT
TRAVELING OFTEN · WORKING EVERYWHERE · PERSONALLY LED · BENCH-BACKED
FIG. 07CONTACTLet's make the pieces fit.
One email starts it. Tell me what you're building and where it hurts.
Matthew SchwenSr. Site Reliability Developer, Oracle Cloud — Founder, Schwen Scalability
ORACLE · CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURENOW
Humana slashes engineering hours with network automation overhaulThe enterprise automation program I directed — "What's hard is the people and the processes. That's more than half the work."KEYNOTE · ONUG AI NETWORKING SUMMIT · MAY 2025Details ↗
NAUTOBOTGPTAI and Network Automation: There and Back AgainIndustry keynote in Dallas — unveiling NautobotGPT, the AI co-pilot for Nautobot, with Network to Code.PODCAST · PACKET PUSHERS · EP. 096 · JUL 2025Listen ↗
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PART №01 · FLAGSHIP · TRUST PLATFORM
PART №02 · FLAGSHIP · AI AGENTS
№05 · AI INFRASTRUCTURE
№06 · LEGAL SAAS
№07 · AI PRODUCT
№08 · OPEN SOURCE
