Matthew Finkel
Software Engineer, WebKit Privacy & Adtech at Apple
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Finkel is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building privacy-focused web and networking systems, currently working on WebKit Privacy & Adtech at Apple. He moved from broader engineering roles at Apple into a specialized position protecting user privacy while helping the web ecosystem remain sustainable. Previously he led browser engineering at The Tor Project, contributing backend networking, directory and relay improvements to a high-profile privacy project and adding unit tests and configuration robustness. His background spans market data systems and large-scale IT automation, reflecting strong systems, networking, and backend skills. Comfortable in both open-source and enterprise environments, he brings a pragmatic blend of security-minded engineering and production-grade reliability. An example of his attention to detail is his work on parsing and const-correctness in critical Tor components, improving maintainability and safety.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science and Engineering, BSE Computer Science and Engineering at University of Connecticut
English
Github Skills (12)
c1710
configuration-management10
c1110
network-protocol10
tor10
cryptography9
testing9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
rust4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
torproject/tor
Oct 2013 - May 2015
unofficial git repo -- report bugs/issues/pull requests on https://gitlab.torproject.org/ --
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the back-end logic and configuration of the Tor project. Their work involved bug fixes and improvements, such as removing redundant code, constifying parameters, and fixing configuration parsing issues. Furthermore, the user implemented features related to network status, directory services, and relay management, adding code and modifying existing structures to support tunnelled directory requests and other related functionalities. The user also added unit tests.
ctorrustrust-lang
sysrqb/torsocks
Nov 2012 - Jun 2017
Contributions:311 commits, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 7 months
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