Robbie Mcmichael
Principal Engineer at Commonwealth Bank
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRobbie Mcmichael is a Principal Engineer based in Perth with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, bare-metal Kubernetes platforms for Commonwealth Bank. He led the design and production rollout of a four-cluster on-prem Kubernetes platform that replaced Mesos, developing controllers for bare-metal node lifecycle, fast Argo CD onboarding, and integrations with CI/CD, observability and secrets tooling. His background as an electrical and systems engineer informs a pragmatic Infrastructure-as-Code approach—he helped automate cluster management via OpenStack Ironic to support scaling to thousands of nodes. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has enhanced a Haskell GitHub API library with webhook types and auth abstractions, reflecting a penchant for clean serialization and API work. Colleagues rely on him for SRE-minded operational processes and out-of-hours support readiness, combining deep platform engineering with hands-on delivery.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Western Australia
Github Skills (4)
rest-api10
haskell10
github-api10
json10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
haskell-github/github
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
The github API for Haskell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 7 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Robbie primarily contributed to the `github` Haskell API library by adding and modifying webhook event types. They enhanced the library's functionality by including missing webhook event types and ensuring proper JSON serialization and deserialization using `FromJSON` and `ToJSON` instances. They also made indentation fixes for the `RepoWebhookEvent ToJSON` instance. Furthermore, the user added a type class for different authentication methods.
apihaskellservantrest-api
robbiemcmichael/paxy
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
An HTTP proxy with support for PAC files
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
pac-filesproxyhttp-proxypac
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