Matt Zukowski
Co-Founder at healthkind
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Zukowski is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 19 years of experience building elegant, scalable, human-friendly systems from Toronto. As Co-Founder of healthkind he helps healthcare organizations apply AI to deliver more patient-centered care, combining product sensibility with hands-on engineering. His background in cognitive science, AI, and information (University of Toronto) informs a pragmatic approach to human-in-the-loop design and security-conscious architectures. A long-time Ruby contributor, he has made substantive back-end improvements to enterprise single sign-on projects (rubycas-server and rubycas-client), including interoperability, session management, and protocol-compliant single sign-out—work that underpins real-world authentication deployments. Matt blends deep implementation experience with a founder’s focus on usable, auditable systems that scale in regulated domains.
19 years of coding experience
Hon.B.Sc., Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, Hon.B.Sc., Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
http10
authentication10
user-authentication10
rails10
ruby10
nethttp10
git9
rest9
activerecord9
yaml7
nokogiri6
xpath6
xml-namespaces6
php6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rubycas/rubycas-server
Oct 2008 - Oct 2012
Provides single sign-on authentication for web applications, implementing the server-end of Jasig's CAS protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:172 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the rubycas-server project, which provides single sign-on authentication. Their work included merging branches, modifying configuration files (config/hoe.rb), and updating the version file (lib/casserver/version.rb) and environment files. Furthermore, the user implemented timeout functionality for the Google authenticator and made changes to the single sign-out request implementation, ensuring compliance with the JA-SIG CAS Server 3.3's implementation, updating and refactoring multiple files.
authenticationjasigsingle-sign-on
rubycas/rubycas-client
Nov 2008 - Feb 2012
Ruby client for Yale's Central Authentication Service protocol -- an open source enterprise single sign on system for web applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the Ruby CAS client library. Their contributions include fixing a bug related to URI queries, adding a method to obtain the login URL, and addressing issues in the Rails integration, such as ensuring proper Rails version compatibility and handling session management. They also made updates to documentation and Rails example applications, and improved exception handling. The user's work involved maintaining and refining the core functionality of the CAS client within the context of a Rails application.
authenticationrubysingle-sign-on
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