Summary
Mike Park is a Principal Software Developer based in Gütersloh, Germany, with 15 years of professional experience and a two-decade focus on web technologies spanning front-end, back-end and API design. He currently drives software delivery at Cowen Europe AG and has a history of leadership roles—ranging from head of development positions to a brief staff engineering stint at Shopify—while also running a long-standing freelance practice building Angular/Rails products. Comfortable across the stack, his recent work centers on TypeScript with Angular and Node, but his background includes Ruby on Rails, Docker, and cloud hosting, reflecting pragmatic full-stack fluency. Mike places strong emphasis on team dynamics and continuous learning, pairing hands-on coding with mentoring and process leadership. An early entrepreneur and co-founder from the 1990s, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a practical, product-first mindset to complex engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Rhodes University
English, German