Michael Watt
Software Engineer at Canva
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Watt is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building backend systems in Python and Java, complemented by earlier work in C, C++, Scala, and Ruby. He has repeatedly delivered revenue-critical services and integrations at scale—designing APIs, MLS integrations, and lead-delivery pipelines—while operating across AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD ecosystems. As a technical lead and mentor he thrives in small teams, balancing architecting cross-team solutions with detailed implementation and operational oversight. His career spans consumer-facing platforms and media/video infrastructure (BBC, Vzaar, Mendeley) through to real-estate and marketplace systems (Bridge, Zillow), showing a rare blend of domain breadth and system reliability focus. Based in Perth, he brings a pragmatic, technically meticulous approach and a track record of shipping complex integrations that preserve performance and uptime.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at Curtin University
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Github Skills (44)
browser10
jenkins-api-plugin9
rest9
amazon9
jenkins-plugin9
rest-api9
jenkins8
jetty8
openapi8
api8
aws8
swagger8
jax-rs8
java8
artifacts8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikewatt/ladybird
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Truly independent web browser
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 29 days
jenkinsci/snsnotify-plugin
Sep 2011 - Aug 2014
A Jenkins notifier plugin that sends build notifications to an AWS SNS topic
Contributions:17 commits in 2 years 11 months
jenkinsaws-snsjenkins-pluginbuild-notificationsjenkins-api-plugin
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