Matt Jolly
Developer at Gentoo Linux
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarMatt Jolly is a developer and systems engineer in Queensland, Australia with five years of experience combining HPC operations and open-source package maintenance. As a Gentoo developer he maintains three channels of Chromium/Chrome in the official gentoo/gentoo ebuild repository, adapting ebuilds for new architectures like ARM64 and LoongArch64 and managing complex build configurations. By day he supports and procures HPC infrastructure for government research users, and his background as a senior sysadmin and compliance consultant sharpens a security- and reliability-first approach. Known for fixing papercuts across distributions, he blends pragmatic DevOps, build tooling, and cross-architecture packaging into hands-on open-source stewardship.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
package-management10
ebuild10
gentoo10
linux10
toolchains10
toolchain10
portal10
rust10
scripting9
build-automation9
shell9
script9
sh9
chromium8
llvm7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
gentoo/gentoo
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
[MIRROR] Official Gentoo ebuild repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Gentoo Package Maintainer
DevOps Engineer & Gentoo Package MaintainerContributions:76 reviews, 44 commits, 199 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focuses on maintaining the Gentoo ebuild repository, with contributions spanning various aspects of package management and build infrastructure. Their work includes updating package definitions for software like Chromium, mrustc, and curl, incorporating bug fixes, and adjusting build configurations to ensure compatibility with Gentoo's environment. Furthermore, the user demonstrates expertise in adapting existing ebuilds for new hardware architectures such as ARM64 and Loongarch64, updating rust-toolchain and associated ebuilds, and making adjustments for software updates.
ebuildgentoorevit-apilinuxmulticore
Komorebi-Fork/komorebi
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
A beautiful and customisable wallpaper manager for Linux
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 20 commits in 3 months
animatedlinuxwallpaper-managercustomizabledesktop
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