Mike Mcgowan
Software Engineering Team Lead At Bridge at Learning Technologies Group
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mcgowan is a seasoned Software Engineering Team Lead with 11 years' experience building and modernising SaaS learning platforms, currently leading a cross-functional team at Bridge. He is a hands-on backend engineer who has driven major integrations and migrations—upgrading Java versions, moving video processing to AWS MediaConvert, and adding AI-powered caption summarisation—while maintaining strong operational discipline around security and GDPR. Comfortable across Kotlin/Java/Spring and Python/Django, he has a track record of bringing formerly outsourced products in-house to cut costs and improve ownership. Beyond work he pushes technical problem-solving competitively (CodinGame Master, top 0.2%) and pursues cybersecurity challenges (TryHackMe top 2%), reflecting a practical security mindset. He pairs that curiosity with a theoretical physics background and a habit of staying active outdoors, which helps him balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Theoretical Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Theoretical Physics at University of York
English, Polish
Github Skills (113)
xapi10
django-cms10
django10
lrs10
django-project10
bolt9
django-framework9
cms9
python9
moodle9
session-cookie9
intellisense9
silex9
php9
sbt9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mikemcgowan/moodle-plus
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
A dockerized Moodle 3.2 development environment
Contributions:1 PR, 169 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 5 months
dockerizedmoodledevelopment-environmentdocker
mikemcgowan/django-react
Feb 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:236 pushes, 15 branches, 2 comments in 3 years 2 months
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