Matthew Heidelbaugh is a software engineer with five years of experience building cloud-focused backend systems, currently at Capital One in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. A Penn State computer science graduate with a mathematics minor, he specializes in Python and cloud governance, contributing as a lead engineer on Cloud Custodian—adding AWS resource support like SageMaker and OpenSearch and implementing filters, actions, and tests. His background spans applied research and practical systems work from internships at Unisys and Select Medical, giving him both low-level OS feature exposure and large-scale VM resource analysis experience. Matthew combines security and cost-governance expertise with hands-on engineering, regularly improving core functionality of a prominent open-source cloud governance project.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Minor, Mathematics, Minor, Mathematics at Penn State University
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:10 reviews, 45 PRs, 23 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on adding new resource types and implementing associated features for the cloud custodian project, specifically within the AWS ecosystem. Contributions involved adding support for Sagemaker, OpenSearch, and other AWS services. The user's work also included the implementation of filters, actions and corresponding testing for the new resources, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and cloud security principles. In addition, the user made updates and fixes to the core functionality of cloud custodian.
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Matthew Heidelbaugh - Software Engineer at Capital One