Grant Oakley
Software Developer at Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGrant Oakley is a pragmatic software developer based in Glasgow with 13 years of experience delivering C#, .NET Core, JavaScript and Google Cloud solutions in agile environments. At the UK Department for Transport he has led digital transformation efforts across small and large projects, progressing from apprentice to senior developer responsibilities. He contributes to prominent open-source projects such as grpc-java and Dagger (including Android Hilt), where he’s improved core APIs, fixed subtle bugs and modernised internal component behaviour—work that reflects a focus on maintainability and testability. Comfortable across backend and cloud stacks, he pairs hands-on coding with an aptitude for refactoring legacy systems and improving developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Calderside Academy
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
testing10
microservices-application10
dagger-hilt10
java10
javas10
android10
microservices10
dependency-injection10
grpc10
refactor9
rpc9
proto9
refactoring9
annotation-processing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/dagger
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to the Dagger dependency injection framework, focusing on the Android Hilt extension. Their work involved fixing documentation references, adding features to allow for deferred component initialization in tests, and correcting internal component state management. The user also implemented several refactoring and code cleanup tasks to improve the internal structure and maintainability of the project, along with updating project dependencies and fixing test-related issues.
androidjava
grpc/grpc-java
May 2018 - May 2022
The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Grant focused on enhancing the Java gRPC implementation within the grpc-java repository. Their contributions involved adding `toString()` methods to core gRPC classes such as `ClientCallImpl` and `GrpcFuture`, improving documentation for `ClientCall` and adding the `@CheckReturnValue` annotation to `CallOptions` and `AbstractStub`. The user also addressed a bug in `CallOptions#withOption()` and contributed to the cleanup of deprecated methods.
grpcjavarpcmicroservicesproto
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