Mike Farah
Principal Engineer at Contact Harald
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMike Farah is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building resilient, AI-enabled and cloud-native systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has led architecture and delivery at Atlassian—where he shipped an AI Virtual Service Agent and LLM focus-mode that materially cut incidents and improved tool-calling accuracy—and served as CTO at Encapto, driving DevOps, ISO27001 compliance and cultural change. Mike combines hands-on engineering with strong stakeholder alignment, using architectural narratives and production smoke testing to shrink time-to-detection from days to minutes and halve on-call load. He excels at lifting engineering practices—introducing automated contract testing, pre-commit quality gates and clean architecture—to scale teams and product delivery. Trained in software engineering with first-class honours in machine learning, he brings a rare mix of ML-savvy and pragmatic delivery focus that accelerates AI productisation in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B. Software Engineering (1st Class Hons in Machine Learning), B. Software Engineering (1st Class Hons in Machine Learning) at Monash University
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Github Skills (113)
yaml-processor10
golang-cli10
go-language10
bash10
ruby10
splat10
cobra10
portable10
getopt10
linux10
cli-application10
argparse10
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golang10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mikefarah/yq
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor
Contributions:50 releases, 27 reviews, 1421 commits in 7 years 5 months
devops-toolscsvgolangyamlyaml-processor
orchestrated-i1/dashinator
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
dashreplacementdashingdashboard
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