Mike Cochrane
PHP Developer at Air New Zealand
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMike Cochrane is a seasoned PHP developer and infrastructure engineer with 17 years’ experience, currently driving reliability and CI/CD practices at Air New Zealand. He specializes in PHP7, AWS, Atlassian Bamboo and Silverstripe, and has a track record of improving codebases through bug fixes, testing refinements, and query optimizations in core Silverstripe projects. Beyond web apps he contributes to infrastructure-as-code (dnscontrol) and IoT/embedded tooling, showing a practical breadth from DNS automation to CubeCell sensor integrations. Known for blending hands-on back-end development with Site Reliability Engineering responsibilities, he focuses on maintainability and operational robustness. Based in Auckland, he couples a Computer Science background from the University of Auckland with deep institutional knowledge from long tenure at Air New Zealand.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Tauhara College, TaupoBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (35)
debug10
cms10
javascript10
silverstripe10
testing10
workflow-engine10
i2c10
iot10
php10
go10
dns10
sys10
system-integration10
sensor-fusion10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-cms
Mar 2016 - May 2018
Silverstripe CMS - this is a module for Silverstripe Framework rather than a standalone app. Use https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer/ to set this up.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 15 PRs, 23 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the codebase of the Silverstripe CMS. Their contributions involved addressing issues with form fields, page history banners, and virtual page functionality. They also made changes to use `SiteTree` instead of the `Page` class in several locations and updated file form usage information, contributing to the overall maintainability and functionality of the CMS. Several of the commits involved changes to testing code and configurations.
cmsphpinstallerstandalonesilverstripe
HelTecAutomation/CubeCell-Arduino
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Heltec CubeCell Series (based on ASR6501, ASR6502 chip) Arduino support.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike significantly contributed to the `heltecautomation/cubecell-arduino` repository by adding examples for a wide range of I2C-based sensors including light, temperature, and humidity sensors. These examples demonstrate the integration and usage of sensor libraries with the CubeCell Arduino platform. The user adapted existing sensor examples to the CubeCell HTCC-AB01, showing a focus on hardware interfacing and sensor data acquisition.
chiplorawanheltecarduinocubecell
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