Mike Bryant
Head Of Student Wellbeing at University of London
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Bryant is a seasoned student wellbeing leader and mental health professional with 14+ years steering counselling and wellbeing services across leading London institutions, currently Head of Student Wellbeing at RADA. He combines clinical practice as a counsellor, social worker and clinical hypnotherapist with leadership experience from roles including Head of Student Counselling at Goldsmiths and mental health commissioning at the Care Quality Commission. An experienced trainer and supervisor at UCL Institute of Education and the Psychosynthesis Institute, he also co-authored three accessible books on hypnotherapy and self-development for Wiley. Mike’s background includes early IT leadership—he once managed a 700-user network and an IT team—bringing unusual technical fluency to service design and quality improvement. His open-source QA work on the well-known TinkerPop/Blueprints project shows a penchant for strengthening test suites and maintainability behind the scenes. He is known for building cross-institutional networks and practical initiatives that translate clinical expertise into scalable student support.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Social Work, Masters, Social Work at Indiana University IndianapolisDiploma in Counselling, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Diploma in Counselling, Counselling and Psychotherapy at Re-Vision Counselling and PsychotherapyPractitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapy at London College of Clinical HypnosisDiploma Counselling, Diploma Counselling at Re-Vision Psychotherapy TrainingPostgraduate Degree, Computer Science, Postgraduate Degree, Computer Science at University of North LondonMasters Social Work, Masters Social Work at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
blueprint10
playframework10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
guice9
json9
scala9
dependency-injection6
neo4j6
akka-streams6
django6
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tinkerpop/blueprints
Jul 2013 - Apr 2015
A Property Graph Model Interface (no longer active - see Apache TinkerPop)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike focused on enhancing the test suite for the `blueprints` project. Their contributions primarily involved adding informative messages to failure conditions in the tests, improving debugging and clarity. The changes included modifying various test classes within the `blueprints-test` directory. This indicates a focus on improving the robustness and maintainability of the existing test infrastructure.
tinkerpopapacheapache-tinkerpopgraphproperty-graph
EHRI/ehri-entity-matcher
Apr 2019 - May 2022
A small single page application to bulk-match names again database entities and export structured data
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
exportstructuredsingle-page-applicationdatabasesingle-page
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