Michael M. Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Technical lead on cross-cutting initiatives to extract core capabilities from the Ruby on Rails monolith into edge infrastructure and 12 factor microservices including authentication, experiment enrollment, feature flagging, and edge routing. These capabilities were delivered through a mix of technologies including AWS Cognito, AWS Kinesis, AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Workers, HAProxy, Golang, and Node.js. Through these efforts we also advocated and led adoption efforts to migrate our aging observability platform to Datadog which offered significant benefits in our distributed architecture.In parallel we lead the migration of the core product model from being coupled to the Ruby on Rails monolith at runtime to a static distributable configuration available at build and deploy time without direct access to the monolith.These initiatives span from weeks to years with emphasis delivering value early, improved developer experience and efficiency, resilience, data sovereignty, and observability. The core platforms team focus on mentorship, education, and advocacy made it a natural environment for embarking on the transition to senior engineer.

Melbourne, Australia

Technical lead on the development of our in-house front-end framework with a strong focus on first-class support for server side rendered React, GraphQL, i18n, observability, and developer experience. The framework deployed with out of the box integration with our in-house Kubernetes cluster, authentication, and UI component framework, The framework was deployed on the latest Node.js LTS, and scaled through a combination of kubernetes and HAProxy.As Redbubble was still primarily a Ruby on Rail environment, thoughtful and compassionate mentorship with even the most senior team members was key to the acceptance of this new technological direction and building sufficient comfort for external advocacy.This front-end framework became the standard for all new front-end experience projects. The challenges encountered throughout its development lead to the creation of two new platform teams in its place - design systems, and core platforms.

Melbourne, Australia

Currently I’m a Performance Engineer on the platform services team. The scope of our projects require regular contributions to our Symfony 2 (PHP), Rails (Ruby), and Golang production code bases.The team primarily builds Golang micro-services with React front-ends for:- user authentication and management- double-entry accounting ledger- performant image delivery- internal admin systems- A/B testing- public traffic service-meshAdditionally I worked with teams on migrations to:- HTTPS-only- CDNs- a service-meshIn my role as Performance Engineer I worked on- increasing visibility of user-centric performance metric- http/2 adoption- WebP image adoption

Melbourne, Australia

As a front-end focused engineer I collaborated closely with the UX, design teams, and product teams on - initial internationalisation- initial responsive redesign- subsequent rebrands- componentisation of the UIIn leading efforts to modernise our front-end I worked on- Sass based CSS UI component framework- high risk JavaScript UI framework major version updates- migrations between generations of UI frameworks including Backbone.js, jQuery, FlightJS, and React.- modernising our front-end build infrastructure with performance and developer experience in mind- technological explorations into http/2, GraphQL, and Relay

Melbourne, Australia

As a product developer in our PHP stack I worked on teams responsible for- core product experiences- primary conversion funnel- payments and fraud- growth and acquisition- real time UI and email notifications

Melbourne, Australia

I started as a full stack developer on the company’s in house PHP CMS product. The role required me to work closely with our designers, and interpret client requirements for sites ranging from e-commerce, portfolios, and government.Later in my tenure I lead the small development team in building stand-alone micro sites for e-commerce, and government clients using the PHP Silex framework. In this role I worked directly with clients to gather requirements.

Worked on a CRM specific to real estate agents. The team was very small which afforded me the freedom to take initiative in improving developer efficiency and reducing bugs includingAdopting the project’s first ORM to enable encapsulated, and database queries- adopting OOP to enable encapsulated, and testable code- adopting jQuery to lower instances of cross browser bugs- implementing a shared asset solution with manifests resulting faster deployments, and cache performance

Computer Science, Physics, Maths

Activities and Societies: Basketball team, roller hockey team, science club.Studied 18 months of a double degree Bachelors in Computer.

Highschool Diploma