Matt Pearson
Senior Network Engineer at UMass Memorial Health
Oxford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Pearson is a Senior Network and Security Engineer with a decade of focused experience and over 20 years in networking roles, now driving infrastructure and security at UMass Memorial from Oxford, MA. He has led large-scale datacenter modernizations, zero-trust security migrations, and global Zscaler rollouts while championing automation with Ansible and Python to reduce errors and accelerate change. A pragmatic architect and hands-on operator, he’s designed multi-region ACI datacenters, migrated firewall platforms, and managed AWS connectivity for enterprise initiatives. His open-source contributions include build and install fixes for the widely used pysam genomics library and backend improvements for OpenBoxes, showing an eye for developer-facing reliability beyond purely network domains. Colleagues know him for breaking down silos through cross-training and for combining strategic design with day-to-day escalation and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bishop Feehan HS
English
Github Skills (18)
grails10
back-end-development10
python10
inventory-management10
groovy10
inventory-management-system10
shared-libraries10
build-automation10
cython10
pip10
csv10
health9
bioinformatics9
ehealth9
medical9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openboxes/openboxes
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
OpenBoxes is a supply chain management system designed to manage inventory and track stock movements for healthcare facilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 reviews, 365 commits, 154 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the OpenBoxes supply chain management system. Their commits focused on improving the system's ability to handle data import/export, particularly CSV files, and enhance user interface warnings related to account signup and access. The user also made significant changes to the system's core logic for currency formatting and added code to download purchase orders to csv. Furthermore, they worked on code for PDF generation.
shipment-trackinginventorymanagement-systemmovementssupply-chain
pysam-developers/pysam
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Pysam is a Python package for reading, manipulating, and writing genomics data such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the HTSlib API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the build and installation process for the Pysam library. They addressed issues related to shared library builds, especially when installing with pip or in develop mode. Their contributions included modifying the build scripts (`cy_build.py`) to correctly handle library paths and linking flags, particularly for macOS environments. Additionally, they worked on improving the paths returned by the `get_include()` function.
bcftoolsapipythonbcfpowers
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