Mitchell Buckley
Verification Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMitchell Buckley is a Verification Engineer with a PhD in Category Theory and 11 years of experience bridging formal mathematics and practical software systems across automated theorem proving, software verification, and ML research. He has applied formal methods to safety-critical kernels at CSIRO, developed ML infrastructure and research prototypes for startups, and recently advanced category-theoretic approaches to structured reasoning and code synthesis. Known for combining pragmatic engineering with a principled theoretical lens, he writes and formalises proofs (including Coq work on parity complexes) and codes in languages from C and C++ to Haskell and Python. Based in Sydney, he thrives on turning deep abstract ideas into auditable, production-ready systems that strengthen correctness and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics at Macquarie University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
tlaplus10
tla10
dependent-types10
agda10
formal-methods10
coq-library10
proofs10
verification10
proof10
model-checking10
microkernel10
sat-solver10
isabelle10
coq10
specification10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MitchellBuckley/l4v
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
seL4 specification and proofs
Contributions:3 reviews, 39 PRs, 688 pushes in 4 years 1 month
parquetspecificationsat-solversel4proofs
MitchellBuckley/seL4
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
The seL4 microkernel
Contributions:27 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
microkernelsel4-microkernelsel4
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