Mike Harris
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Harris is an independent consultant, coach and facilitator with 30 years of software engineering and management experience who helps organisations navigate the human side of change—from AI adoption and team restructuring to engineering culture and leadership development. He combines hands-on technical credibility (cloud, distributed systems, Go, Java, Python, AWS) with deep people-focused practice, including Agile coaching, facilitation and training in Transactional Analysis psychotherapy. Mike has a track record of bootstrapping and scaling engineering teams at Elsevier, architecting cloud-native and GDPR-compliant systems, and running a community-first managed hosting co-op serving NGOs and social enterprises. He prioritises data sovereignty and ethical tech, running infrastructure via XtreamLab and championing open-source and community projects in Bristol. Known for mentoring across levels and geographies, he brings pragmatic delivery experience together with an uncommon emphasis on psychological safety and organisational dynamics.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at University of the West of England
Spanish, English
Github Skills (23)
bitly7
php6
laravel6
lumen-framework6
shorturl5
url-shortener5
manjaro2
aws-lambda2
serverless2
solaris2
aws2
aix1
snap1
linux1
amazon-web-services1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikebharris/presentations
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 years 6 months
mikebharris/perl_cgi_mandelbrot_set_generator
Sep 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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