Mike Bywater
Software Development Director at Hyperoptic
Telford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Bywater is a results-driven software development director with 11 years of experience building high-performing teams and delivering large-scale, event-driven systems across telecom and enterprise domains. He has scaled development from small teams to over 200 engineers (100 internal, 100+ external), running 20 agile squads and deploying 1000+ production changes per quarter while integrating COTS platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow and NetSuite around Kafka. Known for instituting CI/CD, TDD, DevOps practices and SAFe governance, he combines strategic roadmap thinking with hands-on operational improvements that reduce MTTR and accelerate delivery. His background spans hands-on engineering through to board-level technical leadership, including leading the largest R&D project at APT Solutions and migrating whole infrastructures to the cloud. Based in Telford, UK, he balances pragmatic process design with a knack for turning complex integration challenges into continuously deployable, reliable services.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Leeds
English
Github Skills (49)
openvz9
rest-api8
kafka-topic8
adam8
rest8
swagger7
laravel-crud-generator7
azerothcore7
openapi7
api-generator7
aws-sdk-v36
php6
generator6
laravel6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikebywater/ldap
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
mikebywater/rest-now
Sep 2018 - Jan 2024
Rest Client For Service Now
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 5 months
service-nowrest-clientrestrest-apijava
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