Michael Rowe
Senior Engineering Manager at me&u
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Rowe is a senior engineering manager and seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience building resilient, high‑velocity engineering organisations across Australia. He blends hands‑on architecture and reliability engineering expertise with a strong people focus—coaching, mentoring and scaling teams from small squads to 30+ engineers while launching major products on time and budget. His background spans enterprise and startup‑style delivery at REA, Suncorp and SEEK, including configuring AWS Resilience Hub and driving SRE practices to improve platform risk posture. A pragmatic coder and open‑source contributor, he’s contributed meaningful backend work to the Ruby HTTP client excon (notably HTTPS proxy and test stubbing improvements), showing attention to real‑world interoperability and testability. Based in Melbourne, he routinely bridges strategy and execution as a trusted senior leader who anticipates complex issues and builds the conditions for teams to be effective. He also holds an unconventional academic mix—formal computer science grounding alongside recent Arts studies—reflecting broad analytical and communication strengths.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA English/Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA English/Philosophy at Deakin UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at La Trobe UniversityThe University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (13)
proxy-pac10
http10
web-proxy10
proxy10
http-proxy10
excon10
ruby10
testing9
openssl9
java6
git6
struts6
jsp6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
excon/excon
Mar 2011 - Apr 2011
Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `excon/excon` repository, a Ruby HTTP client. Their work focused on adding support for HTTPS proxies, including the necessary modifications to handle SSL connections and proxy configurations. They also implemented and refined stubbing mechanisms for testing and incorporated environment variable-based proxy configurations, improving the client's flexibility and testability. The user's changes included updates to the core connection handling and proxy setup logic, along with related test suite updates.
usableexconruby
mrowe/rowe.lighting
Jan 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:68 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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