📖 About Me

Hi, i'm Matthew

I'm a computer science student at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia with over a year of experience working in the tech industry designing and maintaining a variety of systems

Some of my biggest interests are Backend Development, DevOps, and Cyber Security

💼 Experience

Co-op Security Engineer

Lockheed Martin

• Assist in the development of cybersecurity solutions to assure the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of the information systems on national and international programs
• Collaborated with a team to ensure the creation of cybersecurity architectures and other security artifacts for multiple information systems
• Aiding in the the development of security documents

Co-op Fullstack Developer

Lockheed Martin

• Researched, designed, and implemented a fullstack dashboard application using PostgreSQL, Flask, and React that would allow the team to track, create and update changes to engineering projects
• Developed various queries to retrieve relevant data that could be consumed by users
• Created scripts to pull data from various sources to reduce manual data entry work and could be used to automate the creation of Jira Tasks

Co-op Developer

Checkfront

• Full stack development with React, PHP, Symfony, JavaScript, Docker, PostgreSQL following an Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Optimized backend performance, designed schema updates for our database, helped to identify and fix critical bugs in the codebase
• Streamlined API documentation as well as audited our REST API endpoints to assure accuracy for our clients
• Identified vulnerabilities in our legacy codebase testing SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities

📂 Projects

Maze Path Finder

A program to decode a given binary file corresponding to a maze and solves it

VR Locomotion Project

Tested different locomotion techniques in VR using babylon JS