Summary
Michael Burson is a Technical Lead based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, containerized microservices and guiding teams through complex integrations. He has driven measurable business outcomes—leading architecture that improved scalability 40%, cut operational costs 50%, and delivered 99.99% uptime—while building analytics and recommender integrations that doubled content views and dramatically improved retention. Comfortable across the full stack, Michael has shipped customer-ready products using Typescript, React, Node, and modern CI/CD practices, and has introduced TDD and TypeScript to teams to raise engineering standards. He combines product-minded engineering with stakeholder-facing strategy, having worked closely with execs to secure contracts and shape platform roadmaps. Currently focused on transforming a digital estate into a tenanted, multi-source inventory platform, he still finds time to mentor junior developers and champion pragmatic DevOps. A former concept artist and youth worker, he brings a rare blend of creative problem solving and people-first leadership to technical delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Construction and the built environment, English, Maths, Science, I.T., Construction and the built environment, English, Maths, Science, I.T. at Greenwich Community College
Mount Grace school