Michael Harmer
Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Harmer is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure, distributed systems and site reliability with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms from Sydney. He has progressed from full-stack and Java engineering into platform and SRE roles at SiteMinder and now Canva, shaping developer tooling, observability and Kubernetes-based production infrastructure across large AWS footprints. Known for bridging architecture and hands-on execution, he drives best practices in system design, shared libraries and CI/CD to improve developer velocity and reliability. Michael’s background in both product-facing services and internal platform work gives him a pragmatic view of trade-offs between scalability, operability and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Macksville High SchoolBachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Wollongong
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Github Skills (21)
logging9
fluentd9
fluent-bit9
stream-processing8
opentelemetry8
prometheus8
windows7
linux7
bsd6
excel6
vba6
external5
firebase-app-distribution3
terraform2
terraform-provider2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Fullplate/hsgroove
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:55 commits, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
Fullplate/fluent-bit
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
osxwindowstracinglinuxlogging
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