Michael Milewski
Senior Software Engineer at Failure-Driven
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Milewski is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11+ years building resilient web platforms, particularly in the food & beverages and e-commerce spaces. He combines hands-on engineering (including long experience with Perl and backend web services) with strong practices in agile coaching, BDD/TDD, and developer mentoring to lift teams and juniors to deliver like seniors. Michael has led observability and IaC initiatives—migrating platforms to Terraform, GitHub Actions and secure secret management—and has driven product-focused, customer-centric delivery at scale. As co-founder of Failure-Driven he shares technical learnings publicly via GitHub, YouTube and Twitch, signaling a commitment to community-driven learning. His background includes roles at Realestate.com.au, Redbubble and Zepto where he set up reusable templates, modularisation patterns and learning cultures that increased cross-team contributions. Notably, he pairs practical delivery with a knack for turning operational needs into teachable practices that elevate whole organisations.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Polish Languages SchoolMelbourne High SchoolScience and Engineering Computer Science Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering Computer Science Mechanical Engineering at Monash University
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Github Skills (26)
activerecord6
hash6
csv6
ruby-on-rails6
sql6
rails6
ruby6
bdd5
java4
runner4
react4
api3
health3
payment3
cpp3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
failure-driven/todo-pairing-dojo
Aug 2019 - Nov 2023
a TODO list in ReactJS as a sort of coding dojo exercise/pairing practices talk
Contributions:73 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
reactdojopairingjavascriptcoding-dojo
failure-driven/data-pipelines-in-ruby
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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