Summary
Mike H is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native, test-driven systems and driving continuous delivery across diverse stacks including Java, C#, Python, Ruby on Rails and Kubernetes. He specialises in domain-driven microservices, auth and integration architectures—having led migrations to centralized Auth0/OpenID Connect, prototyped Kafka integrations, and productionised CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI, Helm and Docker. Comfortable both as a hands-on developer and as an architectural coach, he practices pair programming, TDD/BDD and peer review to raise team capability and align delivery to current business value. Beyond paid roles he volunteers full‑stack work on open-source tournament software, showing a pragmatic blend of engineering craftsmanship and community contribution. Based in Birmingham, he combines enterprise experience from Acacium and Ex Libris with startup grit from early-stage teams to deliver reliable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, Upper second-class honours, BSc, Computer Science, Upper second-class honours at The University of Birmingham