Matt Linton

DevOps Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States26 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in disaster management and incident response.
Leadership in crisis management protocols at Google.
Volunteer technical director for animal rescue organization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Security and Incident Management Specialist with expertise in disaster response.

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Skills

Core Skills

Security Incident ResponseDigital Forensics

Other Skills

PunsManagementCritical Incident ResponseInformation SecurityComputer SecuritySecurityNetwork SecurityPenetration TestingFirewallsComputer ForensicsIntrusion DetectionMicrosoft ExchangeWireless NetworkingRisk ManagementVulnerability Assessment

About

I merge the practice of disaster management with computer incident response and forensics. It turns out, this works pretty well. Resume: https://mattlinton.com/mattlinton-resume-2025.pdf

Experience

Google

2 roles

Manager, Security Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

I lead the "Americas" region of the Security Response (Digital Forensics & Incident Management) team at Google. I also co-lead and maintain Google's "IMAG" Crisis management protocol and training.

Security Incident ResponsePunsManagementCritical Incident ResponseDigital Forensics

Chaos Specialist

Mar 2014 – Mar 2020 · 6 yrs

Staff Security Engineer / Crisis Management expert

Nasa ames research center

Chief Information Security Official (Deputy)

Feb 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Moffett Field, CA

International space orchestra

Principal Cellist

May 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 10 mos

California task force 3, us&r

Rescue Specialist

Jan 2008 – Jun 2020 · 12 yrs 5 mos

EMT, Heavy Rescue Specialist & Water Rescue Specialist. CATF3 is one of 28 full-scope urban search and rescue teams in the USA, responding to large scale emergencies.