Matjaz Golorej
Development Engineer at Veyance Technologies, Inc.
Slovenia
Summary
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RockstarMatjaz Golorej is a Development Engineer based in Slovenia with 17 years of hands-on experience building and operating web platforms and developer tooling. He contributes to prominent open-source projects such as Open edX—improving Studio UI and deployment scripts—and has worked on core front-end infrastructure like virtual-dom, enhancing SVG attribute handling and robustness. His background spans full-stack development and DevOps: from refining Nginx and deployment configurations to scripting better developer workflows for build tools on Windows. Comfortable moving between UX-focused frontend fixes and low-level operational improvements, he brings a practical, reliability-first mindset to production systems. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who focuses on accessibility, maintainability, and smoothing the developer experience behind complex platforms.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
docker10
virtual-dom10
configuration-management10
proxy10
leiningen10
proxy-server10
batchfile10
dockers10
script10
svg10
front-end-development10
build-automation10
ansible10
html10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Mar 2014 - Mar 2022
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 46 commits, 28 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matjaz focused on configuring and optimizing the deployment environment for the edx platform. They modified Nginx configurations to handle headers correctly, ensuring proper routing in different deployment scenarios. Furthermore, they addressed system stability by ensuring automatic restarts of edxapp workers and improving the MTU settings. They also introduced features to enable proxy_intercept_errors in nginx and added the ability to override django translations.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
openedx/edx-platform
Apr 2014 - Dec 2022
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 119 commits, 132 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matjaz primarily contributed to the Open edX platform's frontend, making several updates to the Studio user interface. Their work included modifying form elements (new course/library forms), adding accessibility attributes (aria-describedby), and refactoring components. They also updated JavaScript files to enable the functionality of create course and library forms. Furthermore, they updated code related to course listing and unenroll popups.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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