Michael Sharp
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMichael Sharp is a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer based in Sydney with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining reliable Linux-based infrastructure for web and cloud platforms. Currently at Platform.sh, he combines deep sysadmin skills with on-call incident ownership and a track record of designing resilient deployments for mission-critical services. Previously he led and developed support teams at Anchor Hosting and provided senior-level support at CircleCI, giving him strong customer-facing and mentorship experience. A longtime Linux and open source enthusiast who also dabbles in programming and board games, he brings practical, pragmatic solutions rather than theoretical designs. Colleagues rely on him for steady operational judgment, infrastructure automation, and thoughtful coaching during high-pressure incidents.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (34)
circleci9
rails8
ruby8
symfony-console8
ruby-on-rails7
ssh7
command-line-tool6
cli6
php6
python6
command-line-interface5
continuous-integration5
docker5
continuous-deployment4
testing4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SphericalHam/xmonad-config
Mar 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:11 pushes in 5 years
SphericalHam/autorandr
Mar 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
xrandrauto-detectx11linuxdetect
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