Michael Sharp
Software Engineer II at Kraken
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sharp is a pragmatic software engineer with 14+ years building and leading teams to deliver full-stack systems for ISPs and carrier integrations across Australia. He excels in backend tooling and infrastructure—Java, Python, Unix/Linux, build/test systems and RDBMS—while also shipping customer-facing web features and APIs that tie together network hardware, billing and regulatory interfaces. As a long-time senior engineer at OntheNet and more recently Vonex and Kraken, he combines hands-on coding with project leadership, code review and CI-driven practices. Notably, he has deep operational experience mapping network usage to billing and integrating with vendors like NBN Co and Telstra—strengths that make him effective at translating complex telecom requirements into robust, auditable software.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Engineering, GPA 6.25, Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Engineering, GPA 6.25 at University of New England (AU)
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Github Skills (16)
iot10
raspberry-pi10
python10
home-automation9
asyncio9
automation9
privacy9
home-assistant9
mqtt9
azerothcore8
internet-of-things8
javascript8
garden8
css8
react8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
getsharp/womavenmigration
Mar 2019 - Apr 2024
A Bash script that attempts to convert a WebObjects/WOnder Fluffy Bunny project to a Maven project.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
getsharp/core
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 tag in 1 day
raspberry-pihouseprivacy-firstprivacygarden
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