Mike Beaton
Software Developer at Parmenion
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Mike Beaton is a pragmatic software developer with 11 years’ experience building backend systems, tooling and firmware-level projects from Bristol, UK. He has progressed from junior roles to application architect and now develops production software at Parmenion and Squirrel365, bringing a blend of systems thinking and practical delivery. An active open-source contributor, Mike has worked on notable projects including the OpenCore bootloader and EDK II firmware, as well as .NET libraries like Massive and Swashbuckle where he improved performance and schema generation. He combines low-level systems/bootloader expertise with .NET backend skills, and is the author of the Mighty micro-ORM for .NET Core—evidence of both tooling craftsmanship and a preference for clean, efficient solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Filton College
Stackoverflow
3,568reputation
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62answers
14questions
swagger
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json
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serialization
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Github Skills (46)
bootloader10
unit-testing10
uefi10
utilities10
firmware10
net10
dotnet10
swagger10
build-system10
schema-design10
asp-net-core10
c1110
c1710
schema-org10
asp-net10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
acidanthera/OpenCorePkg
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
OpenCore bootloader
Role in this project:
System Architect / Software Architect
System Architect / Software ArchitectContributions:394 reviews, 257 commits, 196 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on the OpenCore bootloader project, focusing on low-level system modifications and enhancements. The commits involved fixing minor typos in comments and error messages, as well as fixing issues related to reading SMBIOS and boot entry selection. Additionally, the user implemented a boot entry flavour system for improving organization and control over boot entries. The user's contributions touched upon boot management, low-level system utilities, and user interface elements.
bootloaderopencore
domaindrivendev/Swashbuckle.AspNetCore
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Swagger tools for documenting API's built on ASP.NET Core
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 29 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the `Swashbuckle.AspNetCore` repository by addressing issues related to Swagger documentation generation. They focused on correctly handling write-only and read-only properties in schemas and implemented tests to ensure proper behavior. Their work involved modifications to the schema generation process to accurately reflect property attributes, resolving bugs, and ensuring compatibility. This improved the accuracy of API documentation generated by the tool.
swagger-tools
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