Matthew Nielsen

A bit about me.


                    I'm a senior at the University of Waterloo majoring in
                    Computer Engineering. My primary academic interests are metaheuristic search
                    algorithms, computational geometry, numerical analysis, and digital logic.


                    I believe in fighting for a free, open, web (#NetNeutrality) where user privacy is
                    not at the mercy of behemoth tech monopolies.


                    In my free time I like to take photos, cook fancy meals, collect
                    vinyl, 
                    and take care of my plants.


                    My preferred pronouns are he/him.

My work experience.


                        As a cooperative education student at the University of Waterloo I have been given the oportunity to
                        apply and extend my academic knowledge through practical work experience at some of the most innovative
                        companies in the world.

Software Development Consultant

Remote

May 16, 2020 - Present


                                    Active member of the PreForm development team, Formlabs' free 3D print 
                                    preparation and CAD utility software.

Software Engineering Intern

Boston, MA

Jan 6, 2020 - May 16, 2020


                                    Worked on various areas of the PreForm app including support-truss generation, model minima rendering, 
                                    and large refactoring projects. Developed productivity tooling to support the devlivery of the PreForm
                                    app and printer firmware.

Software Engineering Intern

Boston, MA

May 6, 2019 - Aug 23, 2019


                                    Developed computational geometry algorithms in modern C++ to reconstruct broken 3D meshes. Excercised my
                                    meta-programming skills to architect a system responsible for generating thousands of lines of modern C++ classes.
                                    Wrote a laser path generation tool in Python to aid the materials development team in validating new materials.

Loblaw Digital Software Engineering Intern

Toronto, ON

Sept 6, 2018 - Dec 23, 2018


                                    Played a critical role in the development of an innovative chatOps
                                    platform written in Elixir that automates labour intensive workflows for teams in all corners of the business.
                                    Started and contributed to multiple open source software projects which will be 
                                    elaborated on here.

Loblaw Digital Software Engineering Intern

Toronto, ON

Jan 6, 2018 - Apr 23, 2018


                                    Developed a highlighly distributed and massively fault tolerant test result aggregation and visualization service.
                                    Written in Elixir with a highly parallelized architecture, the app processes and renders thousands of live data
                                    points a second.


                        In my free time I am also an active member of the open source community. You can check out some of the projects
                        that I have been involved with here.

On the Side.


                        In addition to my professional and academic work, I like to keep myself busy with a
                        number of initiatives in my free time.

Azohra Core Maintainer

Jan 6, 2018 - Present


                                    Azohra is an open source software organization that is passionate about 
                                    developing engineering productivity tooling. We develop tools that help simplify the process of
                                    encryption, 
                                    computer configuration, and
                                    automated testing. Feel free to
                                    check out and maybe even contribute to a few of our tools!

ECESociety Co-Founder

Jan 6, 2018 - Apr 23, 2018


                                    The ECE society is a student run organization that exists to promote a sense of community among ECE 
                                    students and serve as a platform to directly communicate their needs to the department. The ECE society
                                    organizes various social and professional events along with the creation of both academic and technical
                                    resources.

Let's stay in touch.

Wanna connect? You can reach me at any of the accounts below:


                            ${firstname}.${lastname}@hey.com

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