Matthew Sitton
Freelance Software Developer
Katy, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Sitton is a freelance software developer and former Linux systems administrator with 15 years of hands-on experience across C#, TypeScript, and low-level C work. He combines practical systems engineering—rebuilding CentOS images, managing ZFS/Lustre storage, and maintaining heterogeneous server fleets—with application development for Unity3D and web projects. His open-source contributions include refactoring the single-file miniz compression library into a more maintainable multi-file layout and adding streaming/robustness features, showing comfort with core library internals. Based in Katy, Texas, he brings a pragmatic troubleshooting mindset from years of IT support and hardware maintenance to every project. Collected training in high-performance computing underpins his interest in performance and system-level detail that often surfaces in both infrastructure and code.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, High Performance Computing, Associate’s Degree, High Performance Computing at Texas State Technical College
English
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Github Skills (4)
c1710
c1110
zlib9
code-formatting7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
richgel999/miniz
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
miniz: Single C source file zlib-replacement library, originally from code.google.com/p/miniz
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on refactoring and updating the miniz library source code. Their contributions involved separating the code into multiple files and integrating vogl's .clang-format configuration, enhancing code organization and readability. Key changes include modifications to `miniz_tinfl.c`, `miniz.h`, and `miniz_tinfl.h`, demonstrating an understanding of the library's inner workings. Further contributions included adding functionality for robustness and streaming.
minizzlib
mdsitton/fofix-rewrite
Jul 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:24 commits, 1 issue in 2 years 4 months
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