Mike Waites
Master Of The Forge at Sport.Fun
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Waites is a seasoned Python engineer and technology leader with 13 years of experience building data-driven web platforms and scaling product teams from startup to acquisition. Currently titled "Master of the Forge" at Sport.Fun, he blends deep hands-on expertise in Python, Django/Flask, Postgres, Elasticsearch and AWS with proven leadership as CTO and Head of Product & Engineering at companies like Vizibl and Spark. He excels at turning complex, high-throughput systems into reliable, user-focused products and has guided teams through MLPs to multi-million-dollar payment volumes and successful exits. Based in London, he pairs strong operational skills (DevOps, Redis, NGINX, Salt/Fabric) with a knack for coaching teams and setting tech strategy, and he’s actively advising startups tackling sustainability and blockchain payments. An early career background in global live-event systems gives him practical resilience engineering experience that often surfaces in his pragmatic approach to reliability and deployment.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The Archbishop LanfrancHND Multimedia web design, HND Multimedia web design at Carshalton College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (131)
flask-application10
authlib10
json10
flask-api10
marshmallow10
oauth-client9
api9
flask-restful9
pytest9
sqlalchemy9
json-serialization9
serialization9
oauth2-client9
alembic9
sql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikeywaites/kim
Jan 2014 - Feb 2020
Kim: A JSON Serialization and Marshaling framework
Contributions:10 releases, 488 commits, 127 PRs in 6 years 1 month
json-serializationkimserializationjsonmarshaling
mikeywaites/Flask-Servatus
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
A port of Django's Storages framework for use with Flask and SQLAlchemy
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
pythonpyramidsqlalchemydjangoflask
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