Matthew Pomes
Student at IBM
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Pomes is a computer science student at the University of Wisconsin–Stout concentrating in cybersecurity, with nine years of hands-on experience building secure systems and network architectures. He combines deep interest in cryptography with practical secure software implementation skills, and enjoys designing resilient network solutions. An active open-source contributor, Matthew has improved the Rust Rocket web framework by removing unsafe code, enhancing serialization, and hardening request handling—demonstrating attention to correctness and developer ergonomics. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and security to both academic projects and real-world codebases.
9 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Cybersecurity at University of Wisconsin-Stout
Github Skills (10)
web-framework10
error-handling10
data-serialization10
rust10
web-development10
rocket10
serialization10
concurrency9
configuration-management9
api-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rwf2/Rocket
Apr 2021 - May 2022
A web framework for Rust.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 8 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the Rocket web framework by addressing various issues and implementing improvements. These changes include fixing codegen to emit unused route warnings, removing unsafe code, implementing (De)Serialize for URI variants, making form error kinds generic, adding a configuration value for max blocking threads, and salvaging viable elements from bad requests. These contributions focused on improving the framework's reliability, correctness, and usability for developers.
rustframeworkrocketmodularweb-development
FRC1732/lib
Feb 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 7 months
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