Matthew Howlett
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Howlett is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in Java, systems-level work, and automation, with a strong background in finance-related software. He contributes to high-profile open-source Kafka projects at Confluent, improving client libraries across Go, Python, C/C++ and .NET and adding Confluent Cloud examples and transactional features that help users adopt exactly-once processing. Comfortable working onsite with clients or as part of distributed virtual teams, he quickly learns new technologies and pivots between core library development and user-facing documentation. Based in College Station, Texas, he brings a practical blend of academic training (MPhys, MSc) and hands-on engineering that favors clarity, reliability, and reproducible examples for complex distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
MPhys, MPhys at University of YorkMSc, MSc at University of Kent
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Github Skills (33)
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confluent10
c-language10
python10
kafka10
data-serialization10
librdkafka10
c1110
c1710
serialization10
netframework10
deserialization10
go10
dotnet-core10
producer10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet
Nov 2016 - Nov 2022
Confluent's Apache Kafka .NET client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 375 reviews, 585 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew's contributions focused on enhancing the .NET client for Apache Kafka, specifically targeting transaction-related APIs. They worked on implementing full exactly-once processing capabilities, integrating with FASTER for state management, and providing a transactional word count example. The user's work included modifications to the producer implementation, improved exception handling and related documentation, and the development of a transactional word count example.
dotnetapache-kafkakafka-clientsconfluent-cloudapache
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python
Mar 2017 - Sep 2022
Confluent's Kafka Python Client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 63 commits, 65 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `confluent-kafka-python` repository by developing examples and making configuration changes related to Confluent Cloud integration. Their work involved creating a `confluent_cloud.py` example demonstrating how to produce and consume messages from Confluent Cloud. They also refactored and simplified the configuration of the examples, optimizing the code for clarity and ease of use. Furthermore, the user addressed review comments and made various adjustments, ensuring the code's functionality and compliance with best practices.
pythonkafka-pythonconfluent-cloudpython-clientkafka-protocol
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