Matthew Zimmerman
Staff II Gameplay Programmer at Obsidian Entertainment
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Zimmerman is a Staff II Gameplay Programmer based in Irvine, CA with 13 years of experience blending game systems engineering and cloud-native tooling. He builds gameplay systems for The Outer Worlds while drawing on prior roles at Blizzard and AWS where he delivered reliable monitoring, build-health, and billing tools and contributed to internal Go libraries. Comfortable across full-stack and backend domains, he has hands-on experience implementing transparent proxying and TLS handling in a popular open-source Go proxy library. Matthew’s background in computer game design and practical cloud governance work gives him a rare combination of gameplay intuition and production-grade infrastructure expertise. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous system requirements into robust, testable solutions that scale.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English
Github Skills (9)
proxy10
go10
network-programming10
http-proxy10
sslv39
ssl9
ss9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elazarl/goproxy
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
An HTTP proxy library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to enhancing the `goproxy` library by implementing features for transparent proxying and addressing related bug fixes. Their work includes modifying the core proxy logic to support transparent mode, handling requests without a Host header, and integrating TLS/SSL connections. They also developed an example and a shell script for transparent proxy configuration. Furthermore, the user fixed and reverted code changes related to infinite recursion issues.
gohttp-proxy
mzimmerman/racergo
Sep 2013 - Nov 2017
Contributions:142 commits, 20 pushes, 5 comments in 4 years 3 months
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