Mike's Resume

Freelance javascript/typescript engineering and developer relations consulting. Mostlydoing senior engineering, architecture, SDK maintenance, API governance & development, and content creation.

Worked with:

• Mozilla Foundation - Node.js API, MariaDB, & React development
• SOCOTEC UK - Java Spring Boot, Microsoft Server, Angular, Kafka, & Apache Airflow

Working at Infobip has meant being quite cross-disciplinary, working with several departments covering a spectrum of tasks. As the senior engineering resource for the developer relations teams I covered the following tasks, as well as general developer experience work, developer marketing, and community building

• Development, maintenance, and management of Infobip public SDKs
• Development and operation of sample applications
• Development and operation of booth demos and data collection tooling
• Development of internal tooling for community management and operations
• Moved documentation to a docs-as-code platform
• Online community management
• Event organising, logisitics, and speaking

At InfoSum I was focused on the latest product release which was an API focused product for direct developer integration, as a next generation of the InfoSum Platform. During the initial release I spent my time integrating with engineering, product, and marketing to get everything right lined up for release to actual developers. My work was around representing possible developers within specifications stages, building out initial developer documentation portal, researching the OSS communities, and initial SDK development.

At CloudQuery I've been primarily working towards content generation for using the CloudQuery itself, and the surrounding platforms to simplify usage, on top of that I've been incubating the community to start encouraging an ecosystem as well as adoption.

During my time at Optic, I took responsibility for beginning the program of specifying, designing, building, and releasing the initial Optic SDKs (with Node being the first released). Alongside this, I did prototyping using Optic with other projects in the OSS world, as well as writing, some documentation work, and live streaming. On top of this, I started looking into how to develop relationships with the existing community, as well as try to work out how to monitor the health of the existing OSS user base.

Working as a Developer Advocate within the Product Marketing organisation, I cover supporting wider marketing (and other orgs) activities within Logz.IO to support users of the Open Source technology the Logz.IO Observability Platform is built upon. I've introduced streaming as a means of outreach, as well as starting a videocast/podcast around OpenObservability to promote Open Source tools for Observability within the wider DevOps and Developer communities. Alongside this I produce talks, blogs, and technical assets to support practitioners around Open Source and Logz.io, and where possible feed the practitioners feedback back into the product.

Leading the redevelopment of its current internal architecture to a smaller more repeatable (micro)service architecture. As well as development, I help with upskilling the team and when requested do Developer Relations tasks.

My primary tasks have been

• Basic Solution architecture
• Complete re-architecture of the in-house microservice platform.
• Service investigation and design
• Leading the service engineers and preparing for go live

Freelance software development in Nodejs & PHP, everything from building SDKs & client libraries to full-stack development and systems architecture. Also specialising in consultancy around Developer Relations, with content delivery, developer onboarding, developer outreach and strategy execution.

Developer Advocate for Cloud Data Services, covering products like Cloudant, dashDB, Apache Spark and Graph Data Store. My core focus has been developer outreach in Europe through speaking at conferences, meetups and hackathons. I write conference talks, workshops and blog posts to support our online and offline research, as well as develop proofs-of-concept and prototypes around our technologies and others. Recently I've also taken ownership of client libraries for early-stage products.

I spent my time doing API integrations into the in-house eCommerce platform named blucommerce. This was full stack work, including changes/additions to the front-end in Javascript and the back-end in PHP.

As a PHP Developer working under both the Software Manager & CEO I work on a multitude of projects. Producing fixes and updates to major international Web Applications such as http://www.benchmarkindex.com as well as from the ground up sites and applications (including mobile interfaces for parts of an internal CRM).