Matt Pickering - Lead Designer at Auroch Digital Ltd

Matt Pickering

Lead Designer at Auroch Digital Ltd

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

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Matt Pickering is a Lead Designer with 11 years in AAA games, credited on high-profile racing titles like Forza Horizon 5/4, DiRT, and GRID, and currently leading design at Auroch Digital. He blends a BSc in Computer Games Programming with hands-on programming and scripting experience to deliver data-driven live-service features that drive player acquisition and retention. At Playground and Codemasters he architected live programmes, economies, progression and multiplayer systems, demonstrating both creative vision and delivery discipline. A competitive multiplayer gamer who also enjoys tabletop and card games, he brings player-first empathy to design and a deep practical understanding of vehicle tuning, UI flow and analytics. He contributes to open-source back-end work—improving JMS behavior in a notable Kafka connector—illustrating a rare cross-over of systems engineering and game design.

11 years of coding experience

14 years of employment as a software developer

BSC (Hons) Computer Games Programming Computer Science, BSC (Hons) Computer Games Programming Computer Science at University of Derby

AVCE Information Technology, AVCE Information Technology at Chesterfield College

Github Skills (9)

connectors10

javas10

kafka-connect10

apache-kafka10

jms10

message-queue10

java10

queue10

scala9

Programming languages (3)

JavaScalaGo

Github contributions (5)

lensesio/stream-reactor

Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

A collection of open source Apache 2.0 Kafka Connector maintained by Lenses.io.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 3 months

Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the JMS (Java Message Service) connector within the `stream-reactor` project, as indicated by the commit messages and code changes within the `kafka-connect-jms` module. They implemented features such as message selectors and addressed issues related to message acknowledgement, ensuring messages are acknowledged only after being committed by the Kafka Connect framework. Additionally, they improved the connector's reliability by introducing a polling timeout and closing the connection on task shutdown.

dcosdata-streamstreamskafka-connectsql-engine

sky-uk/stream-reactor

Sep 2017 - Feb 2018

Contributions:20 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months

reference-architecturekafkaarchitecturestreaming

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