Michael Bull
Software Engineer
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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RockstarMichael Bull is a software engineer based in the Greater Cambridge Area with 12 years of experience building solutions across geospatial and medical domains. He combines full-stack web development skills with a strong interest in reverse engineering and functional programming, applying pragmatic API design and code organization to real-world problems. Michael is an active open-source contributor—maintaining a Kotlin multiplatform Result monad where he added Rust-like feature parity and improved test clarity—demonstrating attention to type-safe error handling and cross-platform libraries. He gravitates toward backend-focused, robust systems but brings practical front-end awareness to ship end-to-end features. Colleagues value his methodical refactors and emphasis on clear, maintainable code that anticipates failure modes.
12 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (4)
kotlin10
unit-testing10
functional-programming10
type-system9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
michaelbull/kotlin-result
Oct 2017 - Jul 2022
A multiplatform Result monad for modelling success or failure operations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 15 reviews, 285 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Kotlin library for result monads, a functional programming concept. Their work involved improving the codebase by using named arguments in unit tests, correcting return types of mapBoth calls, and adding feature parity with Rust's Result type. Additionally, the user refactored the code by moving factory methods and renaming the error factory method, showing a focus on code organization and API design.
multiplatformresult-monadbrowserfunctional-programmingjvm
michaelbull/aurelia-split-pane
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
A custom element for resizable split panes.
Contributions:6 releases, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
split-paneaureliasplitpanepanel
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