Matthew Buckett
Senior VLE Developer at University of Oxford
High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Buckett is a Senior VLE Developer with 18 years of experience designing and maintaining virtual learning environments at the University of Oxford. He combines deep back-end expertise with practical stability and concurrency improvements, evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like rometools/rome and the Sakai LMS where he fixed race conditions, refactored permissions, and hardened job scheduling. Comfortable working in large academic and community-driven codebases, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, test robustness, and user-facing announcement/notification behaviors. Based in High Wycombe, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science with long-term institutional knowledge of educational technology and a knack for finding subtle bugs that improve real-world uptime and user experience.
18 years of coding experience
Queen Elizabeth Community CollegeBSc, Computer Science, 2.1, BSc, Computer Science, 2.1 at The University of Hull
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Github Skills (26)
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concurrency10
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spring-boot9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Feb 2008 - Aug 2019
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1353 commits, 694 PRs, 346 pushes in 11 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Sakai project, specifically focusing on the Announcements tool. Their work involved fixing bugs in the site management and jobscheduler modules, enhancing functionality for user-specific notifications, and implementing features related to the display of announcements for anonymous users. They addressed issues related to invalid email addresses and refactored permissions for the announcements module.
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rometools/rome
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Java library for RSS and Atom feeds
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the concurrency and stability of the Java library. Their work involved identifying and fixing a race condition within the `License` class, leading to the implementation of a `ConcurrentHashMap` to manage licenses. They also refactored the code by switching to more general types and increased test execution times for improved reliability. These changes were driven by bug fixes discovered during testing, and aimed to improve the library's robustness.
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