Matthew Dawson
Director Of Infrastructure at Hendrick Health
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Dawson is a pragmatic infrastructure leader with 17+ years of experience designing and running secure, cloud-first IT environments across biopharma, retail, hospitality, telecom and nonprofit sectors. Currently Director of Infrastructure in Frisco, TX, he has repeatedly built high-performing teams, led Azure migrations and hybrid AD/SSO projects, and driven SOX, HIPAA and FDA-compliant transformations that enabled business agility. Matthew pairs strategic engagement with C-suite stakeholders and M&A experience to translate regulatory and operational requirements into resilient architectures and measurable cost savings. Beyond executive leadership, he contributes hands-on backend work in high-performance open-source projects—optimizing Rust-based web and backup tooling—demonstrating a rare blend of systems-level coding and enterprise operations.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Grand Canyon UniversityMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Pittsburgh
Github Skills (17)
asynchronous10
deduplication10
async10
http10
io10
hyper10
backup10
go10
performance-optimization10
web-framework10
rust10
benchmark9
benchmarking9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
iron/iron
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
An Extensible, Concurrent Web Framework for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 23 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew focused on refactoring the `iron` web framework by initially porting it to `hyper` on `tokio` to support asynchronous operations, and later, by implementing HTTPS support using `tokio-tls`. This involved significant changes to the `Request` and `Iron` structs and the introduction of `tokio-proto` for more streamlined server setup. They also introduced changes to support reading the body content from the `Request`. The work demonstrates a deep understanding of HTTP protocols and asynchronous programming in Rust.
concurrencyrustframeworkextensibleweb-framework
restic/restic
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Matthew focused on optimizing the `restic` repository's core indexing and data lookup mechanisms. Their work involved improving the performance of index lookups within the `repository` and `master_index` modules, leading to significant speed improvements in benchmarks. These optimizations included refactoring functions like `Has` and `Lookup` to reduce allocations and overall execution time, contributing to improved efficiency of the backup program. The user also optimized logging functions, removing them from performance-critical code paths.
securededuperesticdeduplicationsecure-by-default
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