Michael Fitzpatrick
Technical Director at Company name is confidental
Greater Nottingham United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fitzpatrick is a Technical Director based in Greater Nottingham with 13 years of hands-on experience building and leading full-stack and backend teams across product and enterprise settings. He progressed from lead developer roles through senior backend engineering at Wattbike to technical leadership, consistently delivering reliable systems and mentoring engineering teams. Michael contributes to open-source PHP tooling—improving branch validation, whitelist/blacklist logic, and error clarity in the phpro/grumphp project—showing attention to code quality and developer workflows. With a BSc in Multimedia from Nottingham Trent University, he combines technical breadth with practical product sensibilities and a knack for tightening developer processes that often go unnoticed until they break.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Multimedia, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Multimedia at Nottingham Trent University
English
Github Skills (5)
regular-expression10
php10
git-hooks10
software-quality9
code-analysis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
phpro/grumphp
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
A PHP code-quality tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Michael focused on improving the `grumphp` project's branch name validation functionality. They implemented features to manage whitelists and blacklists for branch names, ensuring that branches adhere to specific rules. Their commits included adding conditional logic to correctly handle blacklist and whitelist interactions. They also addressed minor issues, such as closing an unclosed `if` statement, removing whitespace, and improving the clarity of error messages.
phpcode-qualitygit-hookscomposer-plugin
qooplmao/michaelfitzpatrick.co.uk
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:330 PRs, 340 pushes, 319 branches in 1 year
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