Michael Compton
Software Engineering Manager at Vista
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top expert inGo Programming Ecosystem and Distributed Systems Technology
Michael Compton is a software engineering manager with a decade of leadership experience building reliable, developer-focused systems across startups and enterprise teams in Australia. Currently leading engineering at Vista after managerial roles at 99designs and hands-on platform work at Dgraph Labs and Octopus Deploy, he blends strategic team leadership with deep technical fluency in backend systems and GraphQL. His PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge and first-class ANU undergraduate grounding inform a research-minded approach to pragmatic engineering and mentoring. An active contributor to the Dgraph Go client documentation, he prioritises developer experience and clear examples—an indicator of his focus on usability as much as performance. Based in Hobart, Tasmania, Michael pairs academic rigor with product-driven delivery, often translating complex distributed-database concepts into accessible tooling and docs.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of CambridgeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st Class Honours at The Australian National University (ANU)
Github Skills (3)
documentation10
go10
api-documentation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dgraph-io/dgraph
Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 169 commits, 190 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily involve updating and enhancing the documentation for the Dgraph Go client, focusing on improving the clarity and completeness of the examples within the documentation. The code changes indicate that the user has a good understanding of Go and its documentation features. The user is likely focused on improving the user experience for developers using the Dgraph Go client by providing clear and concise examples of how to interact with the database.
graph-databasedatabasedistributedgoknowledge-graph
dgraph-io/discuss-tutorial
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Discuss clone app built for a tutorial
Contributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
discussreactclone-appredux
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