Matthew Newton
Managing Director at Newtech IT Ltd
Tameside, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Newton is an experienced IT leader and founder with 17 years in technology, currently running Newtech IT Ltd and delivering technical and project management services to SMEs in Tameside. He combines deep hands-on support expertise—from field engineering and server room design to LAN/WAN and device management—with formal ITIL and PRINCE2 project delivery across NHS and private sectors. As a former Senior IT Engineer and IT Project Manager for Greater Manchester CSU, he has led migrations, infrastructure builds and teams while maintaining tight SLAs in clinical environments. He is also an active open-source contributor to the well-known FreeRADIUS project, improving TLS, PEAP/TTLS and logging capabilities, which underscores his focus on secure, configurable network services. Pragmatic and customer-focused, he pairs technical troubleshooting instincts with strategic planning to deliver resilient, well-documented IT solutions.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, GCSE: 9 GCSE’s including Maths, English and Science, High School, GCSE: 9 GCSE’s including Maths, English and Science at Two Tress High SchoolOtherCollege, Distinction GNVQ Advanced Information Technology, A-Level in General Studies, College, Distinction GNVQ Advanced Information Technology, A-Level in General Studies at Ashton Under Lyne College
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Github Skills (22)
tls1210
user-authentication10
authentication10
c1110
tls1310
c1710
mtls10
openssl10
libtls10
security9
configuration-management9
radius9
networking8
freeradius6
ca6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server
Jan 2012 - Nov 2022
FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 5 reviews, 901 commits in 11 years
Contributions summary:Matthew made several commits focused on enhancing the FreeRADIUS server's functionality. These changes include adding features related to TLS configuration, such as the ability to disable nonces in OCSP requests, setting timeouts, and implementing softfail options. Additional contributions involved adding options to set Unix groups for logging, enhancing module capabilities, and adding support for features like PEAP/TTLS and improved handling of User-Password and its associated attributes. The user's work demonstrates a focus on improving the server's security and configuration flexibility.
policymulti-protocolarpdot1xbfd
mcnewton/freeradius-server
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
The FreeRADIUS Server
Contributions:114 commits, 672 pushes, 187 branches in 8 years
freeradiuspocketminefreeradius-serverserver
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