Mike Bell
Senior Staff Engineer at Airtasker
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Bell is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Sydney with 14 years of experience building robust web applications primarily in Java and Ruby. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Airtasker—Senior Engineer to Tech Lead and now Senior Staff—after prior senior and lead positions at Vivastreet, Simply Business and the BBC. Mike combines deep hands-on engineering with team-level architecture and delivery ownership, often operating at the intersection of code quality, scalability and product needs. His background in aerospace engineering and an MSc in Computer Aided Engineering Design give him a systems-thinking approach and a knack for applying rigorous engineering practices to software problems. He’s comfortable navigating both legacy systems and greenfield initiatives, mentoring engineers while driving technical strategy. An analytical thinker with a history of stepping into progressively senior technical roles, he brings pragmatic leadership rather than headline-grabbing open-source visibility.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University College LondonMSc, Computer Aided Engineering Design, MSc, Computer Aided Engineering Design at University of StrathclydeBEng (Hons), Aerospace Engineering, BEng (Hons), Aerospace Engineering at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (20)
distributed-tracing9
sdk9
api9
telemetry9
opentelemetry8
ssis8
ruby8
mocking6
testing6
replay5
proxy4
proxy-server4
mongodb4
connection-manager3
omnipay2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
samvau/mongosis
May 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:79 commits in 7 months
data-sourceconnection-managerconnectionmongodbssis
airtasker/zero_downtime_migrations
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Zero downtime migrations with ActiveRecord and PostgreSQL
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 PRs in 2 years 3 months
ruby-on-railszero-downtimeincrementalzerorails
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