Mike Richards

Senior Software Engineer @Logit.Io

Manchester, GB

Providing cloud-based logging and analytical solutions with data visualization and more.Achievements Overview: Redesigned majority of the company’s software architecture, including major rewrites. Lead large technology and infrastructure migrations involving cross-team collaboration. Refactored and implemented python APIs used by automation tasks for data processing. Lead a project to build the marketing and documentation sites using React while teaching React best-practice. Mentored interns/junior devs and carried out the role of team leader during large development projects. Worked after hours to fix mission-critical bugs, including security vulnerabilities. Resolved cybersecurity risks and implemented custom enterprise authentication flows Produced guides for observability tools, including how to ship logs, metrics and traces. Continuously encouraged and mentored developers on test-driven development (TDD).Technical Skills Used: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK Stack), Grafana, OpenSearch, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry. ASP.Net 5+(previously named.Net Core).Net Framework, WebAPI & MVC using C# Test-Driven Development (TDD) Python (Including Flask) with Unit Testing (Mock + Patching) React using Gatsby.js (with TypeScript and GraphQL) Other Front-end dev tools: Gulp, Webpack, SASS/CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, etc. RavenDB (NoSQL database) Ubuntu, Mac, Windows, CentOS, RedHat, Debian, and various other OS platforms Docker + Docker Compose Auth0 and FusionAuth, JWE, OpenID Connect, PKCE, and various encryption and hashing algorithms. Agile methodology best practices (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

The University of Manchester

Master's degree (MSc)

Stamford College

Extended Diploma

University of Essex

Bachelor's degree (BSc)