Oliver Bock
Staff Engineer at Displayr
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Bock is a Staff Engineer based in the Greater Sydney Area with 12 years of experience building robust applications across C#, Python, Win32/UNIX and cloud platforms. At Displayr he progressed from software engineer to staff-level technical lead, shipping core application features and shaping long-lived product codebases. He co-founded a startup and earlier led teams developing commercial Windows imaging products, demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and product-focused engineering. Open-source contributions include deep bug fixes to Javascript.Net bindings for V8, improving stability around exception handling, memory leaks and numeric types—evidence of a pragmatic, systems-level mindset. Comfortable across low-level interoperability, backend services and SQL-backed systems, he combines hands-on coding with architecture and operational experience. Oliver’s background in both finance systems and consumer software gives him a rare fluency in delivering dependable software where correctness matters.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyNewington College, Stanmore
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
error-handling10
csharp10
animation9
unit-testing9
caching9
browser9
nunit9
excel9
azure9
eclipse9
xml9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JavascriptNet/Javascript.Net
Nov 2013 - Nov 2020
.Net bindings to the V8 JavaScript engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 89 commits, 49 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the `.Net bindings to the V8 JavaScript engine`. They addressed issues related to exception handling, memory leaks, and stack overflow scenarios within the C# code that interacts with the JavaScript engine. Additionally, the user improved the handling of enums and decimal values. These changes aimed to enhance the stability and robustness of the library.
javascript-enginedotnetv8-javascript-enginejavascriptcsharp
Displayr/htmlwidgets
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021
HTML Widgets for R. NOTE: please keep inst/www/htmlwidgets.js in sync with Displayr/q/SharedWebUi/modules/libs/htmlwidgets/htmlwidgets.js. Also notify Marcus Lau (marcus.lau@displayr.com) after making changes to the master branch of this repository. This is because unit tests which are used to verify the R server build process may break!
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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