Mike Gibson
Cloud Services Engineer at MGDigital
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Gibson is a Cloud Services Engineer based in London with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems across agencies and tech companies. He has repeatedly taken senior engineering roles at firms from Wunderman Thompson Commerce to Apple, bringing a practical full-stack perspective to cloud infrastructure and backend reliability. At times he’s led backend teams and at others focused on platform stability, showing flexibility between hands-on coding and technical leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core routing behavior in the widely used CakePHP framework, demonstrating attention to subtle correctness and test coverage. His background in international management with French gives him a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to stakeholder communication and delivery. Known for quietly fixing tricky edge cases, he blends engineering rigor with operational pragmatism to keep services resilient in production.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, International Management with French, Bachelor of Science, International Management with French at The University of Manchester
French
Github Skills (6)
url-routing10
web-framework10
mvc10
cakephp10
php10
testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on improving the routing functionality of the CakePHP framework. Their contributions included refactoring route key sorting to prevent matching errors, adding a test case, and optimizing the underlying code. They also addressed code style issues and made minor improvements for code readability. The user's changes directly impacted the framework's core routing mechanism.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
mgdigital/BusQueBundle
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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