Mike Kelly - Founder at Self-employed

Mike Kelly

Founder at Self-employed

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Summary

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Mike Kelly is a founder and fintech technology leader with 15 years’ experience building and scaling payments and consumer finance products, from early engineering at Starling Bank to founding Curl and Overlay Payments. He combines hands-on software engineering and product design with executive experience in regulation and go-to-market, having led the UK delivery of Variable Recurring Payments and authored industry-defining analysis for the CMA. Mike invented the HAL API approach used in billions of transactions worldwide and continues to ship practical front-end tooling like the hal-browser. Based in Dubai, he now focuses on smarter tap-to-pay, open banking payments and AI-driven financial products, blending technical craft with commercial and regulatory savvy. An uncommon strength is translating deep protocol- and API-level thinking into customer-facing mobile experiences that drive adoption.

15 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Business, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Business at University of Bath

Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Canford School

English

Github Skills (10)

html10

css10

javascript10

user-interface10

backbone10

graphical-user-interface10

backbonejs10

human-interface10

front-end-development9

json9

Programming languages (19)

JavaC++CSSRustCGoHTMLErlang

Github contributions (5)

mikekelly/hal-browser

Apr 2012 - Jan 2017

An API browser for the hal+json media type

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:113 commits, 21 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Mike's commits primarily focused on building the front-end of an API browser for the hal+json media type. Their work involved initial setup and styling with CSS, implementing the core browser layout using HTML and JavaScript, and integrating with Backbone.js for routing and view management. They added interactive elements like links for querying URI templates and implemented a non-GET request dialog.

media-type

paywithcurl/backend-common

Dec 2020 - Mar 2024

Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 3 months

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