Matt Connew
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Connew is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of professional engineering experience and a longer track record of building .NET services. He designs and implements robust back-end systems at Microsoft, with deep expertise in WCF, HTTP transport, and authentication—evidenced by foundational contributions to CoreWCF and the dotnet/wcf client libraries. His open-source work includes significant fixes and architecture-level changes to Apache log4net and initiating the CoreWCF codebase on ASP.NET Core, showing strength in both legacy interoperability and modern .NET platforms. Matt routinely tackles tricky interoperability problems like Kerberos/Ntlm auth and proxy support for tooling such as Fiddler, and has improved build and packaging processes to aid downstream consumers. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic refactors that remove deprecated complexity while preserving compatibility. He describes himself playfully as an "Indigo belt in WCF," signaling deep, hands-on mastery of that ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (27)
net10
http10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
netframework10
asp-net10
http-client10
wcf10
dotnet-core10
logging10
code-structure10
csharp10
kerberos9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CoreWCF/CoreWCF
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Main repository for the Core WCF project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 1919 reviews, 150 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt's primary contribution involved initiating the codebase for a WCF Server built on ASP.NET Core. They refactored namespaces, added code samples, and implemented initial functionality, fixing code comments, and warnings. The user demonstrates proficiency in setting up the fundamental structure of the CoreWCF project, laying the foundation for future development efforts. The user appears to have a solid understanding of WCF and ASP.NET Core.
wcfcorewcf
dotnet/wcf
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
This repo contains the client-oriented WCF libraries that enable applications built on .NET Core to communicate with WCF services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:177 reviews, 338 commits, 497 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt made significant contributions to the WCF libraries, focusing on improving the HTTP transport and authentication mechanisms. Their work included enabling Kerberos and Ntlm authentication, modifying HTTP transport to utilize HttpClient for authentication, and implementing the support for Fiddler proxy within the test environment. They also refactored code by removing obsolete classes and deprecated functionality related to HTTP request and responses.
dotnetwcfwcf-client
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