Summary
Mike Wyer is a systems software engineer with 10+ years’ experience building and operating large distributed systems, currently focused on systems software at Hudson River Trading. He has led SRE and platform teams at Weaviate, Gousto and Tesco, shipping pragmatic observability, SLO and incident management tooling that measurably reduced noise and improved outage response. At Google he shaped monitoring and traffic infrastructure across mobile and edge services, bringing deep operational experience to complex migrations and high-scale production systems. Mike blends hands-on automation and library/framework development with a humane, customer-focused approach to reliability and post-incident learning. He shares practical tooling and lessons on his site BigBeardyGeek and is as likely to be automating himself out of a job as he is to be tweaking SLOs or facilitating a post-mortem. Outside work he’s into motorbikes, theatre and making music, which informs a collaborative, creative leadership style.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Joint Mathematics and Computing, BSc Joint Mathematics and Computing at Imperial College London