Michael Saunders
Lead Engineer at Ideagen Damstra
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Saunders is a seasoned lead engineer based in New South Wales with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning IT systems administration, DevOps, application development, and field device deployments. He’s built and maintained complex server infrastructures (Windows Server through 2016, SQL Server, VMware HA, AD, Exchange) while also authoring PHP/MySQL web systems and operational tooling that scaled across national retail and field operations. Known for blending technical depth with operational pragmatism, he has led teams responsible for 350+ remote kiosks and designed purpose-built service vehicles and workflows to keep them running. His background in hardware maintenance and programming gives him a rare full-stack fluency—from low-level device logistics to cloud-adjacent server architectures—and a track record of turning manual processes into documented, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
VCE - Year 12, Victorian Certificate of Education - Year 12, VCE - Year 12, Victorian Certificate of Education - Year 12 at Mount Eliza Secondary CollegeComputer Science, Hardware Maintenance & Programming, Computer Science, Hardware Maintenance & Programming at Chisholm Institute of TAFE - Frankston
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
card9
crypto8
vaadin8
solana8
tesla8
database-access8
azure-sql7
cosmosdb7
azure-sql-database7
powerbi7
sql-server7
database7
pam6
vbnet6
azure-data-studio6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
VIDGuide/blog.misaunders
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Jekyl Blos
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
blosjekyllruby
VIDGuide/TWCManager
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Control power delivered by a Tesla Wall Charger using two wires screwed into its RS-485 terminals.
Contributions:29 pushes, 7 branches in 21 days
wallterminalspowerchargerrs-485
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