Oliver Downard
Associate Director, Software Engineer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Downard is an experienced software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years building distributed, high-throughput systems—now serving as Associate Director, Software Engineer at PassFort (Moody’s Analytics). He progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at Featurespace where he helped design and implement a Java-based distributed event processing engine used for real-time risk and fraud detection. Oliver combines hands-on protocol and backend expertise—evidenced by his Wireshark contributions adding Couchbase protocol decoding and SSL support—with a knack for turning low-level complexity into reliable production features. A First Class Computer Science graduate from the University of York, he brings both rigorous academic grounding and practical experience from industry placements at Couchbase. Colleagues describe him as a technically deep leader who still prefers to ship code and solve tricky parsing and distributed-systems problems himself.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours (With Distinction), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours (With Distinction) at University of York
Github Skills (12)
c1710
packet-analysis10
packet-parsing10
c1110
couchbase10
packet-capture10
wireshark10
wireshark-dissector10
tls128
ssl8
tls138
json5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wireshark/wireshark
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed to the Wireshark project by adding support for Couchbase-related protocols. They implemented decoding for Couchbase LWW with meta commands, create bucket configurations, and XATTRs. Furthermore, the user integrated support for SSL and added a Get Error Map command. Their work primarily involved modifying the dissector to accurately parse and display data related to these specific Couchbase features.
wiresharkpacket-capturetsharkstratoshark
OliverMD/podcastpy
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Podcast player for a Raspberry Pi
Contributions:16 commits, 8 pushes in 5 months
raspberry-pi
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