Michael Gall
Engineering Manager at Cadmus
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gall is an engineering manager and founder with 15 years of experience building regulated, customer-facing banking and education technology across Australia. He has led cross-regional teams at scale—improving developer experience and DevOps while preserving delivery velocity—most recently driving product engineering for Cadmus and previously heading platform and operator tooling at Constantinople. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping code, he blends hands-on Ruby on Rails contributions to notable open-source projects (Refinery CMS) with strategic hiring, coaching and incident management. Michael has practical experience deploying AI agentic workflows within strict regulatory constraints to automate migrations, ticket resolution and feature delivery. As a founder of Pipie.io and several earlier companies, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade operational rigor. Colleagues describe him as people-first: he invests in engineers to create resilient teams that reliably deliver complex systems.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BIT, Web Information Systems, BIT, Web Information Systems at University of Southern QueenslandHarristown State Primary School
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
back-end-development10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
ruby10
refinery-cms10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
activerecord8
rspec7
sprockets6
asset-pipeline6
font-face6
caching6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
refinery/refinerycms
Apr 2011 - Sep 2011
An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.0+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on setting up and modifying the back-end structure for the refinerycms project. This included changes to application controllers, model files, configuration files, and route definitions. The user added core functionality to the application, including setting up an sitemap controller, as well as altering the existing authentication features. These changes indicate the user was involved in developing the core functionality of the CMS system.
ruby-on-railscmsrails-cmsrailsrefinery-cms
refinery/refinerycms-blog
May 2011 - Apr 2012
The very best blogging engine for Refinery CMS
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the backend and some frontend aspects of a blogging engine. They implemented new features such as page-like tab functionality using Ruby on Rails (inferred from the file extensions and code structure), and added support for categories. They also modified the backend to add attr_accessible properties to blog posts and fixed page caching for improved performance. These changes suggest a focus on feature enhancement and overall application maintenance.
cmsrefinery-cmsbloggingblogging-enginerefinery
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