Mike Christensen
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer at Ably
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Christensen is a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput web and mobile systems. He currently leads the Pub/Sub product team at Ably, after helping operate its global edge messaging platform that delivers billions of messages daily. Comfortable across the full stack, Mike has a strong backend focus (Go, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ) and a track record of designing distributed architectures and leading cross-functional teams. His background spans music tech and ed‑tech, where he shipped products integrating search, real-time messaging and scalable data stores. He also maintains a special interest in blockchain and decentralised technologies, applying that curiosity to system design trade-offs that improve reliability and openness.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Bristol
English, French
Github Skills (119)
realtime10
messaging10
chat10
javascript10
client-library10
firefox10
api10
sdk10
rest10
js10
browser-extension10
realtime-api10
typescript10
react-typescript10
child-process10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
blokur/grpc-ts-demo
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
🎵 Demo of a gRPC client and server implementation in TypeScript
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 10 months
grpc-clientgrpctypescript
omi-hackathon/rb-omi-hack
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 3 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 days
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