Michael Matirko
Software Engineer at Cisco
Lower Salford Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Matirko is a software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining network security and IDS/IPS features, currently contributing to Cisco’s Snort3 and its integration into Cisco NGFW. He combines low-level network processing expertise—TCP stream reassembly, memory management, real-time network analysis—and practical product work such as bug triage, testing with traffic generators, and community-facing open-source support. Prior roles running a small systems and networking business honed his operational skills in designing resilient WLANs, surveillance infrastructure, and business-class network services. He has stepped into leadership when needed, serving as interim Scrum Master, and is comfortable across development, sustaining engineering, and field testing. A DIY-er and ham radio enthusiast with a Bucknell BE in Computer Science and minors in Math and German, he brings curiosity-driven problem solving and hands-on tinkering to secure networking challenges.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Bucknell University
German
Github Skills (11)
algorithm9
snort9
homebrew8
ruby8
cpp7
discord5
test-suite5
golang2
rtl-sdr2
robot1
python1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matirko/FreeBSD-ports
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
FreeBSD ports tree with pfSense changes
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
matirko/spritebot
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
SpriteBot
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 days
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