Summary
Michael Brown is a seasoned Analyst Programmer based in Sydney with 15+ years delivering web-first solutions using modern JavaScript, React/React Native and robust front-end tooling (Webpack/Babel) while pragmatically supporting legacy ecosystems like jQuery and IE. He blends hands-on app development—authoring award-winning intranets, mobile apps in React Native, Chrome extensions and several popular npm packages—with strong testing and automation experience (Selenium, Mocha/Chai, Tape) and a background in NodeJS-driven build pipelines. Comfortable across Linux and macOS, Michael has a track record of migrating and modernizing systems (Lotus Notes to web, mobile app updates for iOS 11) and driving measurable gains in performance and usability. He is an active open-source publisher (npm packages totaling 30k+ monthly downloads) and enjoys solving compatibility and build challenges that let new web stacks coexist with long-lived enterprise constraints.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Humanities, BA, Humanities at West London Institute of Higher Education
MSc, Applied Computing Technology - Robotics Option, MSc, Applied Computing Technology - Robotics Option at Middlesex University