Michael Meeks
CEO at Collabora Ltd
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Meeks is a veteran open-source software leader and CEO of Collabora Productivity with 25 years of experience building and shipping office and Linux-stack software. He leads Collabora Office and Collabora Online development while maintaining a hands-on engineering role, contributing backend, full-stack, and performance improvements to flagship projects like Collabora Online and LibreOffice. As a former Novell/SUSE Distinguished Engineer and a founder-level contributor to The Document Foundation, he blends product leadership with deep system architecture and standards expertise (ODF and OOXML). Based in Cambridge, he pairs an MEng from the University of Cambridge with practical experience across boot systems, GNOME, accessibility and cluster orchestration. Colleagues know him for turning hard compatibility and real-time collaboration problems into stable, deployable solutions and for keeping active in the codebase even as an executive. He is also notable for combining technical stewardship with community governance, serving on LibreOffice’s engineering steering committee.
25 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of CambridgeChrist's Hospital School
Github Skills (17)
debugging10
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c-language10
libreoffice10
back-end-development10
websocket10
performance-optimization10
cprogramming-language10
open-source9
opencl8
system-design8
javascript8
mobile5
android-developers5
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CollaboraOnline/online
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Collabora Online is a collaborative online office suite based on LibreOffice technology. This is also the source for the Collabora Office apps for iOS and Android.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Full-stack Developer
Back-end & Full-stack DeveloperContributions:891 reviews, 503 commits, 1000 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on enhancing the backend functionality of the Collabora Online office suite, adding features like a server ID for debugging. They also contributed to improving the user interface by addressing the layout and sizing of components. Additionally, the user was involved in optimizing the client-side, particularly regarding the handling of tile rendering and message processing to enhance responsiveness. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to cluster configuration for a more stable operational structure.
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LibreOffice/core
Sep 2013 - Dec 2022
Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:2260 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to bug fixes and optimizations within the LibreOffice core repository. Their work involved addressing crashes related to clipboard data handling, help windows, and window management. They also focused on improving the efficiency of the application by eliminating redundant notifications for tab-stop and ruler changes and optimizing the emission of state change messages. Furthermore, they addressed memory leaks and ensured proper initialization of drag-and-drop pointers.
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