Matthew Mcpherrin
Site Reliability Engineer at Internet Security Research Group
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcpherrin is a Site Reliability Engineer with five years of professional experience building secure, reliable infrastructure for high-profile organizations. He currently contributes to Let’s Encrypt at the Internet Security Research Group, bringing deep expertise from prior roles at Stripe and Square where he built zero-trust access, secrets management, PKI, HSM integrations and Bitcoin cold storage solutions. His background includes systems-level work on network OS internals and C++ modernization at Arista, plus early internships across security, analytics and performance engineering that shaped a pragmatic, tooling-first approach. Based in Old Toronto, Matthew combines security-focused engineering with production reliability practices, and is comfortable bridging cryptographic primitives to operational systems.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (17)
stripe9
proxy-server9
http-proxy7
proxy7
keychain6
reverse-proxy6
hsm5
security5
crypto5
ssl4
stunnel4
tunnel4
authentication4
tls-proxy3
mutual-authentication2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
stripe/smokescreen
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
A simple HTTP proxy that fogs over naughty URLs
Contributions:11 reviews, 2 commits, 12 PRs in 7 days
urlsnaughtyproxy-serverstripeproxy
ghostunnel/ghostunnel
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
A simple SSL/TLS proxy with mutual authentication for securing non-TLS services.
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
pkcs11keychainsslhsmproxy
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