Matt Caswell
IT Analyst at Duke University
Burlington, North Carolina, United States
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Matt Caswell is an experienced IT analyst with 13 years supporting enterprise and educational environments, currently at Duke University. He combines hands-on desktop and infrastructure support with certifications including A+, Network+ and MCTS, and a track record of imaging, virtualization, and large-scale device rollouts. Beyond day-to-day IT operations he has contributed to the OpenSSL project, improving X.509 and elliptic-curve crypto handling—an uncommon open-source security contribution for someone in a support-focused career. Based in Burlington, NC, he brings practical problem-solving from service desk automation and VBA reporting to complex system hardening and maintenance.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Southeast Raleigh High
Github Skills (10)
c1710
ss10
sslv310
certificate10
ssl10
cert10
c1110
x50910
openssl10
cryptography10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openssl/openssl
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
TLS/SSL and crypto library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 4240 reviews, 1579 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the OpenSSL library's core functionality, focusing on enhancements related to the handling of X.509 certificates and related cryptographic processes. Their work includes improving the implementation of algorithms for specific elliptic curve groups and related libraries. The changes involved fixing issues in several modules, addressing memory leaks and code style issues, and making code more robust.
crypto-librarycryptographyssltlscrypto
mattcaswell/openssl
Nov 2014 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4315 commits, 1782 pushes, 1456 branches in 8 years 3 months
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