Matthew Baldwin
Full Stack Software Engineer at Whipz
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Baldwin is a Full Stack Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and cloud automation. He blends backend expertise in Java and C# with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js, Express) and has practical DevOps experience automating AWS infrastructure, including contributing Lambda-based CloudFront tooling. At SelectQuote and now Whipz he has moved from application support to delivering end-to-end features like a Node.js-driven car pre-approval flow, showing a knack for product-focused engineering. He’s contributed security work to the s2n-tls project—removing deprecated ciphers and adding AES-GCM support—demonstrating attention to cryptographic correctness beyond typical full-stack duties. Based in Overland Park, KS, Matthew stays current with industry trends and prefers taking ownership of both feature delivery and the infrastructure that keeps systems reliable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Centriq's IT Career Program
Github Skills (22)
ss10
amazon-cloudfront10
ssl10
boto10
python10
it-security10
sslv310
c1110
security10
c1710
aws-security-group10
lambdas10
aws10
cryptography10
lambda10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-cloudfront-samples
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
Samples for use of AWS CloudFront, including Lambda functions, and SDK usage examples.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Cloud Engineer / DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 18 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the infrastructure and automation aspects of the project. Their work focused on creating and modifying a Lambda function, `update_security_groups_lambda`, which updates security groups based on CloudFront IP ranges. They also made changes to support splitting security groups by protocol (HTTP/HTTPS), and fixed bugs related to port scanning. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on maintaining and automating cloud infrastructure.
lambda-functionsserverlessaws-lambdasdkcloudfront
aws/s2n-tls
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Role in this project:Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:70 reviews, 198 commits, 240 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the security aspects of the s2n-tls library, focusing on enhancing its encryption capabilities. They removed deprecated cipher suites like RC4, implemented support for AES-GCM mode, and added tests to guard against data tampering. Furthermore, the user addressed several bugs, including incorrect size calculations, and implemented fixes for various test-related build issues.
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