Michael Baulch
Senior Software Engineer at IPM Global Pty Ltd
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Baulch is a Senior Software Engineer with over 18 years of commercial experience and a decade of active practice, combining hands-on development with client-facing design and delivery. Based in Queensland, Australia, he has led teams to build accounting and CRM systems from requirements through deployment, working across C#, ASP.NET, Delphi, JavaScript and legacy languages, and managing SQL, DB2 and Pervasive databases. Comfortable in Agile environments (SCRUM and XP), he blends technical depth—having contributed fixes and optimizations to the Nim compiler in open source—with practical operational skills like installations, support, and report generation. Known for clear communication and attention to detail, he pairs systems-level thinking from a computer engineering background with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable software that meets client needs.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (10)
nim-lang10
metaprogramming10
compiler-development10
macros9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
efficientnet8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/Nim
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 31 PRs, 59 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the Nim compiler, addressing issues related to argument counts, type conversions, and tuple handling. Their contributions included fixing bugs in the compiler's error reporting, optimizing code for better efficiency, and improving the handling of tuple conversions to prevent type inference errors. Additionally, the user updated examples and the random module, improving the overall quality and functionality of the Nim language.
pythonnim-langelegancecompilerprogramming-language
mbaulch/rustifact
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:16 releases, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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