Michael Kitchen
Senior Developer at Auto Trader UK
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kitchen is a Senior Developer with a decade of hands-on experience building Scala and Play-based microservices and delivering cloud-native systems on AWS for high-profile public-sector projects. He combines strong functional and object-oriented programming skills across Scala, Java, C++, and C#, with practical expertise in monitoring (Kibana, Grafana) and CI/CD (Jenkins). At Auto Trader and previously as a technical lead for HMRC programmes, he has guided agile teams, mentored peers, and translated complex stakeholder requirements into scalable, maintainable services. His background in games and VR development using Unity and C# gives him a unique systems-level perspective on performance and user-facing integration. Comfortable working across distributed teams, he’s equally adept at shipping time-sensitive features to strict business deadlines and improving team practices through coaching and clear technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ripley St Thomas CE High SchoolNational Diploma for IT Practitioners with Software Development, Distinction, Distinction, Distinction, National Diploma for IT Practitioners with Software Development, Distinction, Distinction, Distinction at Kendal CollegeMComp Games Engineering, Computing Science, First Class Honours, MComp Games Engineering, Computing Science, First Class Honours at Newcastle University
Github Skills (3)
derived10
jenkins9
groovy8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/real-time-income-information
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 59 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 months
hmrc/individuals-paye
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:19 PRs, 18 pushes, 21 branches in 7 months
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