Michael Lambert
Head Of Software Engineering at Austin 7 Club Inc.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Lambert is a human-centric Head of Software Engineering based in Melbourne with 25+ years of broad technical and commercial experience and 12 years in senior engineering roles. He blends servant leadership, systems thinking and hands-on engineering to guide teams through API-first, event-driven and microservices transformations while keeping customer experience front of mind. Known for mentoring developers at all levels, he reduces turnover by aligning people’s motivators with meaningful work and fosters inclusive, blame-free cultures that learn from failure. He has driven reliability and performance gains across SaaS products, led migrations and introduced CI/CD, testing and observability practices that scaled teams from small startups to acquisition. An active open-source contributor, he has implemented practical back-end integrations for tools like the lesstif/php-jira-rest-client and pursues side projects that explore serverless and passwordless patterns. Outside tech he applies his operational and governance skills to motorsport and community organisations, evidencing a steady hand in high-pressure, event-driven environments.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, South Australian Certificate of Education (HSC/VCE equiv), High School Diploma, South Australian Certificate of Education (HSC/VCE equiv) at Pembroke SchoolMarryatville High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
jira10
jira-rest-api10
jira-cli10
php10
management10
version-control10
versioning10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
json8
html6
mysqli6
codeigniter6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lesstif/php-jira-rest-client
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
PHP classes interact Jira with the REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `lesstif/php-jira-rest-client` repository by implementing and refining features related to interacting with the Jira REST API. Their work includes adding functionality to retrieve issue counts related to versions, specifically focusing on fixed and unresolved issues, and updating the related code to integrate with the existing Version service. The user also implemented functionality to update fix versions for issues. Furthermore, they fixed code style issues and payload issues.
apiphpjirajira-clientinteract
nibynool/FitbitInterfaceBundle
Apr 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:98 commits in 3 months
apibundlephpsymfony-bundlerest
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