Michael Whelan
Chief Executive Officer at ode2code
Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Whelan is a seasoned software leader and founder with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native .NET systems, automated testing frameworks, and agile transformations. As CEO of ode2code and co-founder of TestStack, he blends executive leadership with deep engineering craft—authoring open-source tools like BDDfy and Seleno that embed BDD into everyday development. He has driven technical change across startups and large organisations (Microsoft, JustGiving, TalkTalk), migrating monoliths to microservices and implementing CI/CD and test-first cultures. A pragmatic coach and architect, Michael trains teams in BDD/DDD practices and has a track record of recruiting and mentoring junior engineers into professional growth. He combines formal certifications (ISTQB, MSCD, ScrumMaster) with a developer’s toolkit spanning C#, ASP.NET Core, Azure/AWS, and multiple testing frameworks. Unusually for a CEO, he still contributes code and maintains open-source projects that operationalise his testing philosophy.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce and Administration Systems Analysis and Design, Bachelor of Commerce and Administration Systems Analysis and Design at Victoria University of WellingtonSkillsMatter
Github Skills (66)
testing10
dossier10
mstest10
bdd10
equivalence10
readable10
anonymous10
minimize10
tdd10
moq10
unit-testing10
teststack10
test-data10
selenium10
fixture10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mwhelan/TestStack.BDDfy
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 11 months
testingeverbddsimplestbdd-framework
mwhelan/Katas
Aug 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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