Matt Brittan
Software Engineer at Chiot Limited
New Zealand, United States
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RockstarMatt Brittan is a software engineer with six years of experience specialising in IoT development and backend systems, primarily writing in Go. Based between New Zealand and the United States, he brings practical expertise in resilient networking and concurrency for embedded and distributed clients. His notable open-source contributions to the eclipse-paho MQTT Go client include automatic reconnection, publish-before-connect handling, race-condition fixes, and expanded test coverage—improvements that strengthen reliability in real-world IoT deployments. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, bug-focused refactors that reduce complexity and for shipping features that anticipate flaky network conditions.
6 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (20)
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
mqttnet10
go10
macos10
protocol-buffers9
postgresql9
docker9
eclipseiot9
grpc9
testing8
paho6
pgx6
goroutine6
sql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.golang
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 18 reviews, 93 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focused on enhancing the core functionality of the MQTT client in Go. They implemented features for automatic connection, retry mechanisms, and publish operations before connection completion. Furthermore, the user refactored networking code, improved status handling, and addressed potential race conditions within the client, as well as resolved several bugs. Several test cases were also added and modified.
eclipseiotinternet-of-thingsmqtt
ChIoT-Tech/paho.mqtt.golang
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 65 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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