MatthewĀ Alonso
Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Alonso is a Senior Systems Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, low-level infrastructure and developer tooling at Cloudflare, now based in Austin. He specializes in back-end systems, runtime reliability, and build automationācontributing to high-impact open-source projects like Cloudflare's workerd and the widely used cargo-generate. His work shows a knack for improving correctness and observability (alarm retries, queue metrics, hibernatable websocket tracing) and smoothing developer workflows (wrangler CLI build and Durable Object migrations). Comfortable across C++ and Rust ecosystems, he focuses on performance-sensitive code and robust I/O semantics. Colleagues rely on him to turn subtle concurrency and file-handling edge cases into production-safe features.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
capnproto10
data-serialization10
cloudflare-workers10
serialization10
proto10
rpc10
performance-optimization10
build-automation10
rust10
configparser10
cprogramming-language10
concurrency10
cli10
webpack9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/wrangler-legacy
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
š¤ Home to Wrangler v1 (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 145 commits, 98 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `wrangler-legacy` project, focused on the CLI and build process. Their work included refactoring the `wranglerjs` build process, improving project size warnings, and implementing module-based script uploading, highlighting an understanding of web worker deployments. Additionally, they added the ability to handle durable object migrations, suggesting a focus on both the deployment and build workflows. The user modified several commands related to publishing and previewing workers, demonstrating a good grasp of the project's core functionality.
wranglerustcloudflareserverlessworkers
cargo-generate/cargo-generate
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
cargo, make me a project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:42 commits, 17 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the `cargo-generate` project by refining its configuration and file processing. They implemented and updated the configuration parsing logic, including include/exclude file filters, which shows back-end development skills. The user also addressed build and file handling, like correctly removing specific files and modifying template processing, which aligns with build and automation aspects.
cargo-makerustliquidcargotemplate-generator
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