Michael Bannister
Technical Lead, Order Capture Replatforming
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Bannister is a technical lead with 14 years of experience driving large-scale eCommerce and platform replatforming at John Lewis Partnership, currently leading the Order Capture replatforming effort. He designs and builds Java/Spring backends and HTML/JavaScript frontends, with deep familiarity in Spring MVC/Batch, Hibernate, Dojo, and jQuery. Seasoned in Agile/Scrum delivery, he combines hands-on development with technical leadership across platform, web systems and product information projects. His career began on mainframe COBOL/DB2 and evolved through .NET and bespoke PIM solutions, giving him a rare breadth from legacy batch systems to modern microservices. Known for turning complex business requirements into pragmatic, testable implementations, he balances architecture, delivery risk management and incremental migration strategies. A Cambridge-educated mathematician and computer scientist, he brings analytical rigor to product-focused engineering decisions.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Maths, Computer Science, BA (Hons), Maths, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English
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Github Skills (200)
api-management10
google-cloud-platform10
consumer-driven-contracts10
terraform10
security10
consul10
cloud-platform10
google-cloud10
istio10
microservices10
service-mesh10
fault-injection10
proxies10
golang10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
michaelbannister/tdd-template
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 3 months
michaelbannister/istio
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Contributions:20 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
golangsecuresecuritykubernetesobserve
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