Michael Cullum
Chief Technology Officer at Bud
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Cullum is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at Bud, driving engineering and data strategy for a late-Series B fintech platform used by major global banks and fintechs. With over a decade of hands-on experience as an architect and software/data engineer, he combines deep expertise in Go, PHP and Python with specialisms in distributed systems, large-scale data engineering, security and SRE. He built and led systems that processed internet measurement data at extreme scale (>100M rps) and champions pragmatic, well-tested, maintainable solutions that deliver measurable business value. An active open-source contributor and security steward, Michael serves as Security Lead for the Symfony Framework, has held senior roles in PHP FIG and phpBB, and is a frequent keynote speaker across four continents. He is known for empowering teams through mentorship, shared values and autonomy, and for translating complex technical challenges into strategic outcomes.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Bachelor of Laws - LLB at The Open UniversityMiddle School, Middle School at South Farnham SchoolBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Queen Mary University of LondonSixth Form College, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Law, Sixth Form College, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Law at Farnborough Sixth Form CollegeSecondary School, Secondary School at Weydon Academy
English, German
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Github Skills (65)
pluggable10
structured-logging10
docker-compose10
golang10
zap10
go10
logger10
logrus10
logging10
secrets9
vault9
docker-image9
docker9
packagist9
client-library8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
michael-bud/go-pagerduty
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
go client library for PagerDuty v2 API
Contributions:1 release, 2 branches, 1 tag in 7 months
golangapipagerdutyclient-librarygo-client
thisisbud/release-drafter
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Drafts your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 1 push in 20 days
mergednotesrelease-notesmasterpull-requests
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