Matthew Soucy
Principal Software Engineer at BAE Systems, Inc.
New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Soucy is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and improving low-level systems and developer tooling, currently shaping software at BAE Systems from New Hampshire. He specializes in C, C++, D, and Python, with deep expertise in source control, build systems, debugging, and error checking—skills honed converting and optimizing large toolchains and codebases. An advocate for pragmatic, readable code, he contributes to open-source projects such as a Nintendo DS/Wii server emulator where he refactored backend logic for clarity and safer file handling. Matthew’s background includes leadership in FOSS outreach and hands-on mentoring from his time at RIT and FIRST robotics, reflecting a long-standing commitment to teaching and community-driven development. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex, safety- and correctness-critical requirements into maintainable, performant implementations.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
refactoring10
backend10
python10
back-end-development10
refactor10
file-handling9
powershell6
windows6
batchfile6
forloop6
loops6
cmd6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
barronwaffles/dwc_network_server_emulator
May 2014 - Jul 2014
A Nintendo DS and Wii server emulator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the server emulator's backend code. Their contributions involved replacing less efficient methods with list comprehensions and other more concise approaches, enhancing code readability and potentially improving performance. Furthermore, the user made improvements to file handling, implementing context managers to safely manage file operations. These modifications were applied to various Python scripts within the repository.
nintendo
msoucy/Dotfiles
Aug 2012 - Oct 2022
Contributions:290 commits, 149 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 3 months
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