Michael Blight
Team Lead at Mandalay Technologies
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Blight is a seasoned technical leader and hands-on software engineer based in Melbourne, with a career spanning enterprise .NET systems, cloud-native Azure architectures, and front-end UI work. Currently a Team Lead at Mandalay Technologies, he has led delivery teams and built multi-stage CI/CD pipelines while previously architecting IoT and Digital Twins solutions at Telstra using .NET 6, Blazor and a broad set of Azure services. His background ranges from building commercial ERP and banking software to mobile and web apps, reflecting deep experience in C#, TypeScript, Angular and Azure DevOps. Michael also contributes to open-source front-end projects such as the popular Home Assistant mini-graph-card, where he improved UX by adding secondary axes, legends and CSS fixes. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who combines project delivery discipline with continued hands-on development. He pairs 25+ years of industry perspective with a curious, low-key sense of humour—“currently sitting; I hope to lie down soon”—that surfaces in his GitHub bio.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Techology, Information Systems, Bachelor of Information Techology, Information Systems at QUT
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Github Skills (8)
css10
lit-element10
home-assistant10
javascript10
graphing9
graph9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kalkih/mini-graph-card
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, specifically focusing on the graph card's UI components. Their work involved adding and modifying features such as secondary y-axes, showing lines and points, and displaying legends. They also addressed layout and style inconsistencies by adjusting image sizes and modifying CSS, which improved the user experience of the Home Assistant Lovelace UI.
lovelace-uilovelaceassistanthacshome-assistant
michaelblight/node-red-contrib-flogger
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
An advanced file logger module for Node-Red
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 4 months
node-redloggerloggingfile-loggernodejs
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