Matthew Jakeman
Intermediate Software Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMatthew Jakeman is an Intermediate Software Engineer at Atlassian with a decade of hands-on experience building core platform and auth systems for Jira, after progressing from intern to full-time engineer. A First Class Honours graduate in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Auckland, he combines systems programming expertise with a knack for polished user-facing interfaces developed across full-stack projects. He previously contributed to Serato DJ in an agile team, and maintains Extension Manager — a popular GNOME utility with over 1.3 million downloads and packaging by Canonical and openSUSE — demonstrating impact beyond typical corporate work. As a student leader he organised large-scale events and a major hackathon, showing strong community and cross-functional collaboration skills. Personally curious and detail-focused, he pairs performance-minded backend work with front-end UX improvements and an ongoing passion for game development and open-source.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE(Hons), Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours (A+ Average), Bachelor of Engineering - BE(Hons), Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours (A+ Average) at The University of AucklandCertificate of Proficiency, STAR Programme - Microeconomics, A-, Certificate of Proficiency, STAR Programme - Microeconomics, A- at University of CanterburyNCEA Level 1-3, NCEA Level 1-3 at St Patrick's College Silverstream
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Github Skills (13)
gobject10
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gtk10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
gnome10
wai10
adt10
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mjakeman/extension-manager
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 112 reviews, 446 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the front-end and UI of the GNOME shell extension manager. They implemented a view switcher for the application and added various UI elements to enhance user experience, including search functionality and the display of installed extensions. Moreover, the user added a new zoom picture widget to view extension screenshots. They also handled the integration of features like an update action bar for extensions.
gnome-shell-extensiongnome-extensionlibadwaitagnome-shell-extensionsinstalling
mjakeman/s76-scheduler-plugin
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Standalone GNOME Shell integration for system76-scheduler to make the desktop more responsive. Also report bugs for the Fedora COPR package here
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
gnome-shell-extensionfedora-coprschedulerlinuxgnome
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