Michael Howell
Senior Software Engineer at Heidi
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Howell is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with five years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and data pipelines for climate-tech and health applications. He has driven platform architecture and CI/CD improvements at Generate Zero—architecting ETL pipelines processing millions of transactions, automating schema management across 20+ tenant databases, and leading a team to increase deployment frequency from twice monthly to multiple times daily. Michael blends domain-driven design and pragmatic engineering to improve reliability and performance while mentoring engineers and shaping technical strategy for international growth. He also has practical product experience from early-stage MVP work through to production features, and an unusual background running a bespoke live-streaming service that sharpened his systems and operations instincts.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer Systems Engineering at University of Auckland
Github Skills (7)
react5
capacity4
web-application4
water3
sensor3
monitor3
myob1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Mykhol/water-tank-level
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
A web app to monitor water tank level from a sensor installed at a house.
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 2 months
housemonitorinstalledwater-tanksensor
nuncnz/volunteer-management-tool
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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