Summary
Michael Pope is a senior full-stack Ruby on Rails developer with 17 years of experience building commercial accounting, venue management, and bespoke church publishing software. He progressed from programmer to team leader and now senior developer at Digitech, leading a small team to deliver migration tools between QuickBooks, Xero, and in-house accounting systems. Comfortable across many JavaScript frameworks, he combines hands-on product delivery with practical integration experience and an eye for reliable data migrations. An active open-source participant and member of Melbourne developer communities (Melb Ruby, MelbJS, Angular Melbourne, MLUG), he also attends conferences like RubyConf and LinuxConfAU to stay current. Outside work he pursues electronics, robotics and home automation projects, and brings that tinkering mindset to architectural problem solving and automation in his teams.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Victoria University