Matthew Schlebusch
Senior Software Engineer at Roku
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Schlebusch is a senior software engineer based in Cambridge with over a decade of engineering experience and four years focused on cloud and hypervisor development. He has driven features and reliability improvements at AWS Firecracker—contributing logging, async I/O, and KVM/network error handling to a high-profile open-source microVM project—and now builds tooling for voice-enabled products at Roku using Python and Airflow. Comfortable across systems from low-level Rust hypervisor code to distributed Java backends, he blends product-minded design with hands-on implementation and CI/testing automation. Matthew also regularly participates in code review, hiring, and roadmap planning, and brings practical experience making developer workflows and ML/linguist tooling more productive.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Africa
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
logging10
rust10
virtualization10
serverless9
kvm9
api8
container8
apidoc8
benchmarking7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:311 reviews, 33 commits, 90 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the Firecracker microVM project by adding and modifying logging functionality for development preview features. They implemented logging enhancements for snapshot loading/creation, async file I/O, and API interactions. Furthermore, the user addressed errors related to KVM initialization, network device configuration, and serialization benchmarks. These changes indicate a focus on improving the debugging and error handling aspects of the VMM.
serverlessvirtual-machinesandboxvirtualizationrust
mattschlebusch/firecracker
Apr 2022 - Sep 2025
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:665 pushes, 77 branches, 3 tags in 3 years 4 months
serverless
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