Michael Carr
Co-Founder CEO at GoRoadie
Greater Dundee Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Carr is a pragmatic software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling web applications, currently co‑founder and CEO of GoRoadie in the Greater Dundee area. He blends hands‑on full‑stack engineering—having built a product used by hundreds daily—with commercial responsibilities across finance, marketing, customer success and strategy. His background includes leading and re‑architecting systems at Findmypast and managing engineering teams and high‑visibility internal projects at Amazon, where he delivered Amazon Forte and coached engineers to promotions. Comfortable shipping fast with strong test discipline and continuous delivery, he also has a history of mentoring interns into full‑stack roles and running practical workshops on SOLID and TDD. Michael’s combination of startup grit and enterprise delivery gives him a rare ability to move between code, people development and business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology, BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology at Computer Games Technology 2008 University of Abertay DundeeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Games Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Games Technology at Abertay UniversityLevel 5 Coaching & Mentoring, Level 5 Coaching & Mentoring at Chartered Management Institute
English, Spanish
Github Skills (38)
braintree9
adapter8
benchmark7
benchmarking7
google-pay7
stripe7
adyen7
sca6
nodejs6
engine6
paddle6
rails6
sitemap-xml6
ruby-on-rails5
sitemap-generator5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
redlightmikey/katas
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
javascriptreacttypescript
redlightmikey/rookieoven
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 days
coworkingblog-websitecoworking-space
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