Michael Shanks
Co-Founder at Budibase
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Shanks is a software entrepreneur and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience, best known as co-founder of Budibase, an open-source no-code/low-code platform for building business apps and automating workflows. Based in Belfast, he blends hands-on frontend UI work with backend systems design—contributing features across authentication, database integrations, APIs and form components in Budibase’s core repo. His career spans startup and enterprise roles where he translated domain needs into shipped software, from practice management systems to large-scale pharmacy applications. Comfortable across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and containerized deployments (Docker/K8s), he brings pragmatic product sensibility to developer tooling. Notably, he pairs a physics background from Queen’s University Belfast with a tendency to bridge customer-facing product discovery and deep technical implementation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Campbell College BelfastPhysics, Physics at Queens University Belfast
Github Skills (15)
low-code10
no-code10
javascript10
front-end-development10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc9
api9
svelte9
open-source9
databases8
sql-database8
data-integration8
css7
html7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Budibase/budibase
Mar 2019 - Nov 2021
Create business apps and automate workflows in minutes. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, MongoDB, Rest API, Docker, K8s, and more 🚀 No code / Low code platform..
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 1762 commits, 218 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of the Budibase platform by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to both frontend and backend components. Their work included enhancements to screen functionality, UI elements, and the form component, showcasing proficiency in frontend technologies. Additionally, the user made changes to the backend, including authentication logic, database integration, and API endpoints, indicating a broad understanding of the system's architecture. These contributions involved the modification of several core files, affecting the application's functionality and user interface.
no-codesap-hanalow-code-frameworklow-code-platforminternal-tools
mjashanks/mjots
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:155 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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