Michael Perks
Freelance Business Analyst Consultant at INSION LIMITED
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Perks is a seasoned freelance Business Analyst and consultant with over 20 years delivering large-scale, technology-led transformation programmes across banking, insurance, government, energy, retail and utilities. He specialises in project recovery, troubleshooting and BI/information delivery, moving projects from discovery through design, implementation and support with a hands-on Solutions Architect mindset. Comfortable leading Agile teams and engaging stakeholders at all levels, he combines analytical rigour with a personable leadership style that builds durable working relationships. Recent roles include Delivery Manager and Business Insight Analyst for the Department for Education and Shell Energy, and ongoing consultancy through INSION LIMITED. Beyond analysis, he contributes code to open-source Go tooling—improving core web framework run-time behaviour—which underscores a practical engineering fluency beneath his BA/consulting profile. Known for a conscientious, delivery-focused attitude, he often steps into failing projects to restore momentum and measurable business value.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Coventry University
Github Skills (5)
web-framework10
go10
api-design9
testing8
environment-variables8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lunny/tango
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Micro & pluggable web framework for Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the `tango` web framework's core functionality. Their contributions involved modifying the `Run` and `RunTLS` functions, improving address configuration, and fixing related logic within the `tan.go` file. The updates involved adding support for environment variables for port and host configuration, and improved logic for how the framework handles arguments passed to the run methods. The work focused on core functionality related to running the web server.
golangframeworkcache-controlpluggablemiddleware
insionng/vodka
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 55 commits, 54 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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