Mikel Kew
Lead Software Engineer at Envato
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMikel Kew is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and eight years focused on building Ruby on Rails SaaS and e-commerce platforms. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (Rails, Postgres/MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, HTML/CSS) with substantial DevOps and sysadmin experience—managing Nginx, AWS/Azure, Linux provisioning via Ansible—and a pragmatic understanding of product and business needs from prior founder and CTO roles. At Envato and Sendle he has led teams and technical delivery, consistently shipping billing and e-commerce integrations (Stripe, Braintree, PayPal) and optimizations for SEO and analytics. A fast learner comfortable mentoring and simplifying technical topics for non‑technical stakeholders, he’s actively expanding front-end skills toward Vue/React. Unusually for an engineer, he pairs his technical career with a background in film production, which contributes to strong communication, storytelling, and product presentation instincts.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma Screen, Advanced Diploma Screen at APA International Film School
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (187)
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recipe10
mruby10
letsencrypt9
codebuild9
thin9
firefox9
aws-codebuild9
cli9
html9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mikelkew/ey-cloud-recipes
Sep 2016 - Apr 2024
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
recipescookbookrecipevcenterchef-recipes
mikelkew/searchkick
Dec 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches, 6 tags in 2 years 5 months
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