Matt Smith
Staff Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Smith is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years' experience combining academic cyber-security research and production-grade engineering, currently based in Sheffield and working at Proofpoint. He holds a DPhil from Oxford where his research exposed security and privacy weaknesses in avionic wireless and CNS systems and translated into practical mitigations for air traffic control communications, including work on ACAS X resilience and ML transcription of voice channels. Transitioning from postdoctoral research to industry, he has shipped security-focused features at Tessian and Proofpoint, blending systems-level threat thinking with scalable software delivery. Known for tackling high-stakes, real-world attack surfaces, he brings rare domain expertise at the intersection of aviation safety, deep learning, and applied systems security.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil Cyber Security, DPhil Cyber Security at University of OxfordMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at University of WarwickGithub contributions (5)
tangohead/ClimbStats
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
tangohead/opensky-explorer
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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