Michael Richardson
Product Director at Octopus Deploy
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Richardson is a seasoned product and engineering leader with over 16 years of professional software development experience, currently directing product at Octopus Deploy. He brings deep web and .NET expertise—particularly in C#—and a proven track record delivering high-traffic, high-reliability systems for banking, government and consumer comparison platforms. Comfortable from architecture down to debugging stack traces, he has led teams, shaped data models and championed automated testing, CI and iterative delivery. His background includes performance- and security-critical projects (internet banking, Australian Tax Office portals) and applied geo-spatial analytics using LiDAR for Fugro Roames. Academically grounded with a Software Engineering degree and ongoing MSc work, he still codes for fun and reads more code than most managers. Colleagues describe him as process-passionate: he prioritizes sustainable delivery practices as the lever that turns engineering talent into dependable products.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology - Software Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology - Software Engineering Software Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Masters of Science Computer Science, Masters of Science Computer Science at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (90)
nuget10
messaging10
post-quantum10
fhe10
cosmosdb10
security10
rest-api10
encryption10
variable-substitution10
markdown10
tencent10
azure-cosmos-db10
provisioning10
redirector10
shamir-secret-sharing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MJRichardson/TypeSql
Nov 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 2 years 6 months
data-accesssqlstrongly-typedtypeddatabase
OctopusDeploy/Sashimi.AzureAppService
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 7 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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