Matt Collier
Director Of SaaS Operations
Lexington, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatt Collier is a Director of SaaS Operations with 11 years of engineering experience, based in Lexington, Virginia, who blends hands-on backend development with leadership of cloud-delivered products. He contributes to open-source security and infrastructure projects—adding Ed25519 crypto support to a native JavaScript TLS implementation and improving async/concurrent examples for the Rust Redis client—demonstrating practical expertise in cryptography, async systems, and interoperability. At Digital Bazaar he focuses on reliable, secure SaaS delivery, pairing operational leadership with a developer’s attention to APIs, tests, and versioning. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer-executive who can dive into low-level crypto encoding details one day and streamline async production examples the next.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
javascript10
futures10
redis10
async10
testing10
io10
linked-data10
asn110
cryptography10
json-ld10
rust10
tls129
tls139
mtls9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
digitalbazaar/forge
Apr 2015 - Jul 2020
A native implementation of TLS in Javascript and tools to write crypto-based and network-heavy webapps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 36 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on implementing cryptographic functionality within the repository, as evidenced by the addition of Ed25519 support. They added an OID for EdDSA25519, implemented methods for converting public and private keys to and from ASN.1 formats, and updated the copyright notice. Additionally, the user modified the existing signing function to accept a 32-byte private key.
message-digestpbkdf2pkcs1javascripttls
redis-rs/redis-rs
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Redis library for rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the redis-rs project by implementing and refining examples showcasing asynchronous operations using `tokio` and `futures`. They added an initial async/await example and then improved it through indentation fixes. Further contributions involved creating and refining an async multiplexed example, demonstrating advanced usage of the library in a concurrent environment. This included addressing compilation issues and simplifying the example code.
rustredisredis-library
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