About me
I am a team leader with over 20 years of web programming and infrastructure experience. The majority of this experience has been in creative digital marketing agencies and recruitment marketing, while more recently I have been managing an HR software development team in the professional services sector.
I help build and shape high-performing teams by working closely with developers and senior management to ensure that processes, systems and people are performing effectively.
Who I work with
I work effectively with small to medium-sized businesses who, usually as a result of rapid growth, require a technical leader to take the helm of their engineering team in order to optimise processes, and provide the motivation required to meet changing business goals.
With broad skills in digital technologies, I can also help entrepreneurs to build business-ready MVPs, proof of concepts and teams.
I prefer short to medium-term contracts, although I'm always happy to discuss any type of opportunity.
Skills
- Technical direction and engineering leadership
- Building and scaling high-performing development teams
- People and performance management (1:1s, peer reviews, mentoring)
- Infrastructure as code and DevOps culture
- Product architecture and technical decision making
- Agile process introduction and improvement
- Stakeholder and executive communication
- Recruiting, retaining, and mentoring diverse talent
- Digital marketing and employer branding industry expertise
Technologies
- PHP, Ruby on Rails, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
- Laravel, Lumen, WordPress and more
- Linux (RHEL, CentOS), Apache, CLI
- Azure, AWS, Rackspace
- Infrastructure as code, configuration management
- Git, source control and deployment automation
- HubSpot, Mailgun, Campaign Monitor and marketing tooling
Experience
Brands
Agencies
Startups
- ObjectiveManager
- OnSite.io
- People's Music Store
Testimonials
- @determinedmoth
- michaelthomas
- Email – Copied!
-
mike@michaelthomas.co
- Blog
- bemoremike.substack.com