Michael Calcinai
Co-Founder at Binary Design Limited
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMichael Calcinai is a pragmatic technology founder and engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient systems across web, infrastructure and embedded domains from Wellington, New Zealand. As Co-Founder of Octal and Localhost NZ and founder of Binary Design, he blends hands-on PHP/MySQL backend development with deep networking and datacentre design experience, having architected full-mesh core networks and SDN for hosted services. He led IT and product transformation at Hell Pizza—delivering end-to-end POS, online ordering, ETL pipelines and a distributed AMQP processing framework—and later drove platform maturity and CI practices as Technical Lead at Enroller. An active open-source maintainer, he authored and maintained the widely used xero-php library to simplify Xero API integrations and ORM-like models for PHP. Comfortable moving between hardware, firmware and cloud, he has built temperature and camera telemetry systems, custom POS integrations and large-scale monitoring platforms where no commercial off-the-shelf solution existed. Known for tackling both the nuts-and-bolts engineering and the people/process side of delivery, he excels at turning ambiguous operational problems into auditable, scalable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of CanterburyComputer Science, Electronics, Computer Science, Electronics at Eastern Institute of TechnologyTaradale High School
English, French
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Github Skills (16)
php10
api10
object-oriented-programming10
apidoc10
oauth10
mysql9
xml8
htaccess6
wordpress6
mod-rewrite6
sql6
apache6
insert6
decoding6
encoding6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
calcinai/xero-php
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
A php library for the Xero API, with a cleaner OAuth interface and ORM-like abstraction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 releases, 4 reviews, 520 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on developing and maintaining a PHP library for interacting with the Xero API. Their contributions involved the initial setup and signing of requests for the Xero API using OAuth 1.0, parsing responses, and generating model classes for the API endpoints. The user also implemented core functionalities such as object persistence and deletion.
apiphpxerooauth2php-library
calcinai/gendarme
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
A tool to generate PHP models constrained to a JSON schema
Contributions:6 releases, 42 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
json-schemaphpconstrainedjson
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