Matthew Heon
Wire Harness Design Engineer, 3D Printing Wizard at Protomet Corporation
Knoxville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Heon is a hands-on wire harness design engineer with 12 years of experience who blends marine- and contract-manufacturing expertise with a tinkerer’s aptitude for 3D printing and custom fabrication. At Protomet and previously at Delaire, he has driven end-to-end cable assembly design, tooling, process documentation, and ISO/J-STD compliance while collaborating across sales, production, and customers to deliver complex harnesses on schedule. He pairs practical shop skills—soldering, machining, fixture design—with systems-level thinking from a Mechanical Engineering background and experience teaching embedded prototyping and 3D techniques. Outside hardware, Matthew contributes to high-profile open-source container projects (runc, cri-o, buildah), bringing backend and DevOps rigor—especially around seccomp/security and container state management—which hints at an uncommon dual fluency in embedded/mechanical systems and cloud-native tooling. He’s equally comfortable in a suit or covered in metal shavings, and runs a small 3D printing/design business while surfing, skiing, and making custom LEGO minifigures.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, ENGINEERING, 3.90, Associate of Science - AS, ENGINEERING, 3.90 at Brookdale Community CollegeMechanical Engineering, System Design, 3.02, Mechanical Engineering, System Design, 3.02 at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
podman10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
seccomp10
configuration-management10
cni10
buildah10
container-runtime-interface10
containerization10
networking10
dockers10
occi10
containerd10
go10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
containers/common
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Location for shared common files in github.com/containers repos.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 46 reviews, 24 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the configuration and setup of the `containers/common` repository, which focuses on shared files for containerization tools. Their work involved implementing features related to networking, container configuration, and volume plugins. They added functionality for default network creation, configurable subnets, and the `network_backend` field, indicating contributions focused on the foundational elements of the container runtime environment. Several commits addressed the configuration of rootless networking, and setting of defaults within the container runtime configuration, suggesting strong involvement with Podman configurations.
common-filesbuildahcontainerspodmanskopeo
podman-container-tools/buildah
May 2018 - Nov 2022
A tool that facilitates building OCI images.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 4 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the build process and functionality of the `buildah` tool. Contributions included refactoring code to avoid direct output to stdout, which improved the tool's usability as a library, and adding security-related volume options to the validator. Furthermore, the user added support for default network creation within Buildah, contributing to the integration with podman-machine. They also addressed a security vulnerability by validating cache IDs and sources.
oci-imagecontainer-imagecontainerdockeroci
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