Matthew White
Co-Founder at North Pole Security
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew White is a security-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and hardening systems across consumer and enterprise platforms, now co-founding North Pole Security in Cincinnati. He spent nearly a decade solving low-level security and backend challenges at Apple and Google, contributing to high-profile open-source work such as improving macOS binary authorization in the widely used google/santa project. Matthew blends deep systems and security expertise with product-minded engineering—refactoring complex codebases, adding observability and metrics, and writing thorough tests to prevent regressions. He holds a B.S. from Purdue and an M.S. from the University of Cincinnati, and is known for turning subtle memory- and configuration-level issues into robust, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of CincinnatiBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (10)
endpoint-security10
security10
macos10
logging10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
build-system8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/santa
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A binary authorization and monitoring system for macOS
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:11 releases, 418 reviews, 71 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to enhancing the security and functionality of the Santa system, a macOS binary authorization and monitoring system. Their work included fixing memory-related vulnerabilities and code simplification, alongside integrating support for Protobuf, including writing tests to ensure correct logging of events. They also implemented features like file access monitoring and made significant code modifications to accommodate new versions and configurations. The user also refactored code for better structure and added metrics capabilities.
authorizationmacosmonitoringsantasecurity
mlw/santa
Feb 2022 - Sep 2024
A binary authorization system for macOS
Contributions:2 PRs, 903 pushes, 218 branches in 2 years 7 months
authorizationmacos
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