Summary
Mike Gore is a Staff Engineer and seasoned software architect with over fifteen years of experience designing and delivering loosely coupled, cloud-native systems across finance and retail at companies like Checkout.com, ASOS and ClearBank. He combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—driving major scalability wins (e.g., 17x capacity improvement for client balances at Checkout.com) and shortening time-to-production for microservices to under an hour at ASOS. Mike blends architectural rigor (DDD, event sourcing, messaging) with pragmatic delivery improvements, creating department-wide continuous improvement, load-testing infrastructure, and engineering principles that raised delivery frequency and reliability. A regular speaker at Microsoft Build and Ignite on cloud and distributed-data patterns, he’s comfortable operating across Agile, SRE and traditional delivery models. Based in the UK, he’s equally at home mentoring teams and rolling up his sleeves to implement mission-critical, observable systems that survive peak traffic.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSC (Hons) 2:2 Sofware Engineering, BSC (Hons) 2:2 Sofware Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University
English