marcustomlinson

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Hi! I'm applying to become an Ubuntu Contributing Developer and Per-package Uploader for LibreOffice.

About Me

I'm a qualified BSc Software Engineer from Durban, South Africa, with well over a decade of experience in embedded and non-embedded software development. When I'm not writing software, I'm usually writing music or books. Sometimes I may even write a book about software, or software around music.

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Contributions

I’ve been contributing significantly to Ubuntu since late 2013. As of September 2019, I’ve touched nearly 1500 bug reports and initiated more than 300 merge proposals across a broad range Ubuntu projects - that's, on average, 1 merge and 5 bugs per week for the past 6 years Smile :)

Projects I’ve contributed significantly to (i.e. code added / bugs fixed) include:

Highlights

Unity APIs

  • Heavily involved in designing and developing Ubuntu’s Unity Shell features and APIs from 2013 to 2017 (as you can tell from the list above).
  • Co-created (w/ Michi Henning) the middleware layer and API behind Scopes.

  • Created a C++-to-JS binding library called: "V8-cpp", to provide JavaScript APIs for the team's many C++ APIs.

  • Recognised as Technical Lead for my considerable contribution to Scopes and broad experience across much of the Unity API suite.
  • Presented at a number of Ubuntu Online Summits.

Ubuntu Desktop

Future Goals

  • Become an Ubuntu Contributing Developer and Per-package Uploader for LibreOffice.

  • Continue to develop my experience with a wide range of technologies and domains.
  • Find opportunities to work with different languages, on different projects, and at different layers.

Testimonials

If you have something nice to say about me, please add it below along with @ SIG @ (no spaces) - The @ SIG @ command will sign your name and date/time it after you "Save Changes". Thank you!

pstolowski

I worked with Marcus on Unity API and Unity Scopes for a few years and he contributed a lot to the project. He is a great software engineer, highly skilled, versatile and passionate about all aspects of software development. He is a good and dependable team player, very honest, open and easy going, working with him was a pleasure!

-- stolowski 2019-09-25 15:19:17

mdeslaur

Marcus has been preparing the LibreOffice security updates that I release for a while now. They are always well done, well prepared, and well tested. He is attentive to detail and an excellent engineer. I wholeheartedly recommend Marcus gain LibreOffice PPU rights.

-- mdeslaur 2019-09-25 18:08:49