Mikel Ward
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Software Engineer at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMikel Ward is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and systems-minded software engineer with 21 years' experience building resilient infrastructure and automating incident response at Google. He blends deep systems expertise (Linux, BSD, Windows) and hands-on backend development in C, C++, Go, and Python to improve on-call tooling, disaster recovery, monitoring, and continuous delivery for large-scale ML storage and training systems. A Red Hat Certified Engineer with a background in networking and production services (DNS, DHCP, load balancing), he also contributes to open-source projects like the popular Qtile window manager, where he improved Python 3 support and inter-layout compatibility. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs low-level troubleshooting with pragmatic automation and testing to reduce toil and speed recovery. Based in London, he brings a rare mix of long-term operational experience and active software development that helps bridge engineering and reliability goals.
21 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Red Hat Global Learning ServicesThe University of MelbourneBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Monash University
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Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
qtile/qtile
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
:cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 48 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Mikel primarily focused on enhancing the Qtile window manager by improving its Python-based codebase and related documentation. They updated the code to use `python3` consistently. Furthermore, the user addressed layout compatibility issues, specifically improving the interaction between MonadTall, MonadWide, TreeTab, and Slice layouts. Additional changes were made to internal layout class handling and documentation.
full-featuredpythonx11qtilekde-plasma
mikelward/conf
Dec 2004 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1700 commits, 385 pushes, 2 branches in 18 years 1 month
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