Mathew Heard
Director at SP TechSolutions Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMathew Heard is a seasoned software engineering leader and Director based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience building full-stack, security-focused systems and teams from the ground up. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C#/.NET, NodeJS, Lua and embedded C with a proven track record in solution design, CI/CD and Agile delivery across products spanning DDoS mitigation and assistive hardware-software platforms. At X4B he heads a modern global DDoS mitigation service, while at SP TechSolutions he led the end-to-end development of a completed digital assistive system that blended hardware, embedded firmware and cloud services. An investigator at heart, he has applied research experience in computer vision and indoor positioning to real-world health and aged-care products, and contributed performance and security improvements to open-source networking tooling such as a VPN daemon. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who balances rapid delivery with system robustness and a knack for surfacing patentable IP from practical engineering.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Science (Professional Software Development), Bachelor's Degree, Science (Professional Software Development) at Swinburne University of TechnologyVCE, VCE at Goulburn Valley Grammar School
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
hashtable10
data-structures10
c1110
performance-optimization10
networking10
data-structure10
vpn9
openssl8
visual-studio6
netfilter6
iptables6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
gsliepen/tinc
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
a VPN daemon
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 11 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mathew primarily focused on optimizing and improving the performance and stability of the VPN daemon. Their contributions included refactoring and optimizing core networking code, specifically within packet handling. They addressed potential vulnerabilities and inefficiencies within the codebase. Furthermore, they improved the subnet cache implementation, significantly improving performance.
daemonvpnwireguardopenvpn
HalleyAssist/body-parser
Jul 2018 - Apr 2025
Node.js body parsing middleware
Contributions:13 pushes in 6 years 9 months
node-jsjavascriptbodyparsingnodejs
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