Michael Rowley

Senior Software Engineer at Qortex

Own the tech of entire products; report directly to the Director of Engineering; set product and engineering priorities for the team; build and maintain an event-driven SaaS platform for AI analysis of videos; architect scalable microservices in C# and Python; deploy applications to AWS with CI/CD pipelines; work autonomously in an agile team; manage data storage with Postgres and Snowflake; mentor junior and mid-level engineers; break down large projects into measurable chunks completable in single sprints; out-of-hours escalation coordination with engineering and infrastructure teams.

Tech Lead Senior Software Engineer at Moove

Run two distributed teams as Tech Lead, Engineering Manager and Product Manager; handle communications between Senior Management and Engineering teams; coordinate with other Engineering Managers for cross-team projects; architect redesign of the serving layer to unify technology stack and retire a largely defunct codebase; participate in a company committee to oversee architecture changes across teams; perform system design and coding interviews; mentor junior and mid-level engineers; lead Java Spring Boot and Python Django based platforms including a central data interfacing platform.

Senior Software Engineer at Rain

Implement a cryptocurrency trading exchange in Golang with websockets; maintain an in-house ledger using double-entry accounting; pitch product ideas to senior management leveraging knowledge of crypto markets; focus on security-first development; work with Postgres and AWS stack.

Software Engineer at Unifonic

SaaS platform for mass user communications across multiple channels (SMS, WhatsApp, Twitter, iMessage); implement AWS Lambda functions to read from SQS queues into the primary API; interface with third-party APIs and provide a unified API; AWS-based architecture with IaC; implement AWS X-Ray tracing to improve visibility and debugging efficiency; work with Java Spring Boot and Python Lambda functions; prioritize Test Driven Development.

Software Engineer at Careem

Lead engineer for architecting AB Testing Framework in Django; rebuild from legacy Shiny-based system to modern design; enable visualisation of AB test results with data team; function as on-call reliability engineer with monitoring for spikes in errors; contribute to pathing algorithm design for ride-matching; provide out-of-hours support for services.

Software Engineer at iZettle

Backend software for iPad point of sale application; work on internal tooling, APIs for iOS interfaces, SDKs and monitoring; collaborate closely with CTO and engineering leadership; perform large migrations via SQL; work with microservices; implement in Golang and PHP.

Software Engineer at Skyscanner

Web scrapers in Python to pull data from airlines without APIs; use OpenTSDB for logs; contribute to microservices; lead meetings with engineers and shareholders; provide in-hours and out-of-hours support; conduct interviews for senior engineers and technical managers; develop tooling and alerting with Drone CI, Docker, Vagrant and Bosun.