Matt Menzenski

@menzen.ski

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Principal data engineer at PayIt in KCMO. Data engineering, platform engineering, devops, bicycles, Lego, DIY, KC. Husband. Pop to 2. He/him. Opinions mine. Don't park in bike lanes. https://linktr.ee/menzenski

A cargo bike inside a bike shop. The bike is a white Urban Arrow Family electric-assist front-loading model, with front of bike to left of image.
A bicycle leaning against a tree in a forest next to a gentle singletrack trail. The bike is facing to the right and has front and rear racks and several bags on it. It also has headlights and fenders, and a water bottle.
Julie Andrews with an acoustic guitar singing to a group of children on the mountainside in SOUND OF MUSIC
Still frame from the movie The Big Lebowski. The Dude (left), Walter (right), and Donny (middle, background) are seated in a bowling alley and are looking incredulously to something to the left of the scene.
A man standing next to a bicycle. He is leaning and sort of sitting on the top tube of it. He is wearing a black cycling cap with cycling sunglasses on the brim, a black and red cycling jersey unzipped to show a white t-shirt undeneath, and grey cycling pants which are longer than shorts but shorter than pants. The bike is a brown Surly Cross-Check fixed gear, with a large front disk brake, a rear rack with panniers, and bullhorn bars with a headlight on them. He is in a residential neighborhood on a nice day - a house and garden are visible in the background. He looks kind of tired, like he just did a long ride on the bike.
A young girl in winter clothing (purple hat, pink mittens, black coat, black snow pants, boots) jumping on a small trampoline that is covered in a dusting of snow.
Cat standing on a half-wall looking at camera
View of a corner in a house. The ceiling is sloped - it is a finished attic. There are white floating shelves on the wall to the right, covered in assembled Lego sets. On the left there is a white chair behind a white desk with drawers. On the wall behind the desk are many drawer units mounted to the wall. All the drawer units have little labels on the little drawers in them. There must be a thousand little drawers. On top of the drawer units is a row of Lego cars.
Spotify Wrapped 2024 screenshot showing a photo of composer Nobuo Uematsu (Japanese man with mustache and glasses, wearing brown beanie hat and grey/brown long sleeve shirt with sleeves rolled up, standing with arms folded). Beneath that picture (over black background with abstract pink graphic) is the text: Top Artists 1. Nobuo Uematsu 2. King Gizzard & The… 3. Third Eye Blind 4. The Decemberists 5. Jimmy Eat World Top Songs 1. Marble Machine 2. Stratosphere Blues / … 3. Motorcycle Drive By 4. Hog Calling Contest 5. La Risque Minutes Listened 32,202
White cat with some black patches, looking directly at the camera. Close up photo focusing on the cat’s face. She is laying on a folded playmate with white and blue curtains behind her.
Screenshot of an email showing the following text: Hello Matt Menzenski, We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected as a Program Committee Member for CNCF-Hosted Co-located events at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025! Please find the details below on the co-located event you’ve been assigned based on your answers from the interest survey: Assigned Event: Platform Engineering Day Europe Assigned Role: Program Co-Chair
Screenshot with the following text (the first line is header text in blue, the second line is normal text, and the third line is a block quote): Matt Menzenski: Data Engineer by Day, Overeater by Night A dad who balances data, DIY, and dad jokes with a side of Lego. "If parental chaos and platform engineering had a baby, it would be Matt's feed.”
Screenshot of two Bluesky posts from the Discover feed. The posts are unrelated to one another. The top post text is “tell me something you’re thankful for”, while the bottom post text is “A gravy pez dispenser”.
White dog with black patches (American Bulldog) curled up and trying to nap on a blue leather couch.
Cover art for the 1993 video game "Day of the Tentacle". Three people are fleeing towards the camera from a purple tentacle holding a gun. A house is on a hill in the distant background. The title text is in green in the night sky above.
A still frame from the opening of the Maximum Drive television show from 1994. The text “MAXIMUM DRIVE” is displayed in yellow letters on a red background in center of frame, covering most of the image. A checkered flag pattern is visible above and below the text. Behind the graphic an all-terrain vehicle is crashing into a giant inflated ball, barely visible.
A man standing with his back to a stone railing. Below/beneath him is the city of Heidelberg, Germany. The city is visible to the left with a cathedral prominently visible. A wooded hill rises up to the right. The man is wearing a blue blazer and grey sweater with pink collared shirt poking out from underneath.
Album cover for the 1997 album “Third Eye Blind” by the band “Third Eye Blind”. A face with open mouth and hand over one eye is facing the camera, looking downwards. The background is dark and the light is very red. The band’s logo is in the top left corner.
Floating shelves in a finished attic with sloped ceiling. There are many assembled Lego sets on the shelves. Towards the left of the photo there are many small, labeled drawer units mounted to the wall, and a messy desk under them.
Two dogs sitting in the rear cargo area of an SUV. Both are bully breeds. On the left is a white dog with black spots, with a blue leash. On the right is a dark brown dog with white chest, with a magenta leash.
A view of southern Utah wilderness, near the Warner Valley Dinosaur Tracks site. A red dirt road snakes away into the distance. There is green scrub brush, mountains/plateaus in the distance, and a blue sky with puffy clouds.
Selfie of a man with glasses and beard. He is wearing earrings with the Kubernetes “ship’s wheel” icon and is holding one to show it to the camera.
Man in blue sweatshirt standing next to Kelsey Hightower, who is seated behind a table in a conference vendor area.
Building with “AP1 Lofts” sign.
KubeCon conference presentation slide with title “Software Defined Farms - Background”.
Toyota 4Runner suv done up with Argo and Kubernetes graphics.
man's head superimposed over a galaxy/space background. man is wearing safety glasses over regular glasses and the coloring of his face is unusual, like you're looking through an infrared sensor - it's reds and blues like hot and cold areas.
Smiling bearded man wearing a bright blue hooded sweatshirt with the hood up. It is snowing and the sweatshirt has the Snowflake logo on it. Shirt is covered in snowflakes.
Concert photo of The Sword, taken from the front row. Guitarist at left of frame singing into microphone, drummer in background. The lighting is very red.
An AI-generated image showing a white man using a computer. The man’s back is to the “camera”. He is using a Mac laptop and has three large monitors, all showing code. The desk is held up by stacks of technical books. A map of the continental United States is on the wall above the desk.
An overweight white cat with some black spots is sitting on a folded kids playmat on top of a dog bed. She is looking into the camera.
A grey house cat sitting on top of an oak newel post at the base of a set of stairs. He is looking directly at the camera. The stair handrail runs up to the left out of frame.
A dog (left) and a cat (right) sharing a dog bed. Both are white with black patches. The dog looks uncomfortable with this arrangement, while the cat looks smug.
A still image from the introduction animation to the 1993 video game Day of the Tentacle. In the image it is night time - a pickup truck is careening wildly through a residential neighborhood. A house stands up tall in the background on the left. There are stars visible in the sky above.
A bicycle with a child trailer attached, leaning against a wooden fence in a residential backyard. The bicycle is a blue Surly model with an ebike conversion. The trailer has some landscaping equipment in it.
Selfie of a bearded man sitting in a car. He has a red sweatshirt with an “I Voted” sticker on it. It’s dark and rainy outside the car. He looks tired.
Two housecats sitting on a windowsill. A white cat is on the left in the background and a grey cat is on the right in the foreground. Both cats are looking at the camera.
View from near the summit of Sandia Crest peak. A sign says “Sandia Mountain Wilderness”. There are a few large scraggly pine trees in the foreground. Far down below the city of Albuquerque can be seen in the distance.
Grey housecat sitting on top of a newel post at the bottom of a set of stairs. The handrail continues up and left out of frame. Behind the cat is a wall showing some drywall patches not yet painted over. The cat is looking at the camera and appears very statuesque.
A young boy jumping into a fall leaf pile. He is grabbing his legs in a “cannonball” pose, mid-air. A wooden fence is in the background on the left and a red brick house is in the background on the right.
Two cats. A white cat on the left and a grey cat on the right.