Summary
Michael Telford is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native, full‑stack systems using Go, Python, Ruby, C# and JavaScript. He has driven production services from requirements through deployment at companies including Anaeko (IBM BaaS), Smartzer and Teamwork, with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud). Comfortable across backend microservices and React frontends, he favors pragmatic engineering practices like TDD/BDD, Agile collaboration and iterative spikes to de-risk designs. Michael is an active open-source maintainer — one of his Ruby projects has ~50k downloads on Rubygems — and keeps tooling and developer experience front of mind. Based in Belfast, he enjoys taking ownership of end-to-end features and optimizing storage and backup architectures at scale. Colleagues describe him as a language-agnostic engineer who chooses the right tool for the job while still appreciating Ruby’s expressive elegance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing Science Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computing Science Computer Science at Ulster University