Michael Fautley
Software Engineer at Cerebrium
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fautley is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building reliable, full-stack systems and production infrastructure across startups and scale-stage companies. Trained in Mechatronics at the University of Cape Town, he transitioned from hardware-aware engineering into software, bringing a systems-thinking approach to site reliability, platform, and full-stack roles. He spent formative years as an SRE at Superbalist, later evolving into platform and staff SRE roles at Stitch before moving into a software engineering position at Cerebrium. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on operational resilience, scalable platform design, and shipping product-focused features for fast-moving teams. Based in the Western Cape, he blends academic rigor with hands-on production experience and a knack for translating complex system constraints into pragmatic engineering solutions.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (23)
elastic-apm10
nodejs9
elastic8
adapter8
distributed-tracing8
apm8
devops8
performance-monitoring8
agent7
gateway6
laravel-package4
laravel4
pubsub4
php4
http-server4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Superbalist/js-pubsub-rest-proxy
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
An HTTP server which acts as a gateway for publishing messages via a js-pubsub adapter
Contributions:54 commits, 17 PRs, 38 pushes in 11 months
publishingacts-asadaptergatewayjs-pubsub
mikefaut/apm-agent-nodejs
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Elastic APM Node.js Agent
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
agentapmelasticnode-jselastic-apm
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