Mike Thomas
Engineering Lead - Head Of Platform
Greater Dundee Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMike Thomas is an experienced engineering leader and hands-on platform specialist with over a decade building .NET and SQL Server-powered systems, currently heading Platform engineering at Findmypast. He combines deep backend expertise—database design, T-SQL and C#—with practical experience in web services, accessibility and test automation, having progressed from developer to principal engineer and now head of platform. Comfortable leading teams or working independently as a self-employed contractor, he is known for pragmatic problem solving and clear technical communication. A keen continuous learner, he has applied SOLID and AOP principles to redesign analytics middle tiers in production healthcare and genealogy systems, demonstrating both architectural judgement and delivery focus.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (59)
hashicorp-vault10
elixir9
authorization7
microservices7
infrastructure6
proxies6
librato6
ganglia5
cloudwatch5
compliance5
command-line5
backstage5
grafana-plugin5
security5
json5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
findmypast/vaultex
Jul 2016 - Apr 2021
HashiCorp Vault client for Elixir.
Contributions:58 commits, 20 PRs, 65 pushes in 4 years 9 months
elixirhashicorp-vault
findmypast/usher
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
A command line app to usher our containers to production
Contributions:99 commits, 10 PRs, 75 pushes in 2 years
command-line
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