# Michael Fulthorp

> Software Engineer at Facebook

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelfulthorp

I love computer science and software development. In my spare time I love learning new technologies.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Present | Menlo Park, California

### Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sydney, Australia

### Software Engineer @ Learnosity
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sydney
Learnosity builds libraries and services to allow other developers to build and administer rich online assessments. For the first year of my time at Learnosity I was a frontend engineer maintaining authoring tools. For the past 6 months I have been working in the back end team to scale the analytics platform to allow clients to create flexible and fast reports for teachers and educators.

- Maintained and enhanced a library of rich, embeddable UI components (ES6, React)
- Measured and improved the reliability of Webdriver tests (Node JS, Webdriver IO)
- Integrated a latex-to-speech library for math formulas for the benefit of vision impaired users (NVDA, ChromeVox)
- Researched and load tested a new analytics solution for aggregating and reporting on a large, multi-dimensional data set of hundreds of millions of data points (Elasticsearch)
- Loaded tested our adaptive assessment engine (AWS EC2, Python, Locust)

### Software Developer @ Property IQ Strata
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Blue Mountains, Australia
I returned to Property IQ Strata and had the opportunity to see the evolution of the platform I had created earlier.

- Maintained and improved a large single page web application (ES5, PHP, MySQL)
- Gained experience seeing the long term consequences of earlier design decisions
- Created a REST API for the system to be accessed by third party developers (Swagger)
- Created a framework for automated Webdriver tests (PHPUnit, Selenium Server)
- Remote administration of Linux and MySQL servers (CentOS)

### Lead Software Developer @ Property IQ Strata
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Blue Mountains, Australia
I was the first developer of Property IQ Strata, an enterprise strata management platform. I was the only developer for the first 6 months of the product’s development and was responsible for architecting the core application framework (both client and server) using both open source and custom built libraries.

- Architected and developed a complex single page web application (ES5, PHP, MySQL)
- Created a browser based application for designing invoices (CKEditor, Phantom JS)
- Created the back end services for invoice generation and billing (Node JS)
- Created the reporting infrastructure for both online and paper based reports (TCPDF)
- Created the infrastructure for automated testing (PHPUnit)
- Automated the build and deployment processes
- Provided leadership amongst the development team as it grew and mentored junior developers
- Benchmarked and optimized the requests sent between client and server

### Intern in the Database Management Team @ Hewitt Packard
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Burwood, Australia
Inherited an fixed a web application for tracking issues affecting database servers (C#, SQL Server)

### Intern in the Change Management Team @ ING Australia
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Sydney, Australia
- Inherited and enhanced a web application for asset tracking (Visual Basic, SQL Server)

### Computer Programmer @ Aussie Made Software
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Blue Mountains, Australia
- Created a single page web application for tagging runners in photos of amateur races (JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)
- Maintained an application for tracking behavior of students at schools (Visual Basic, Microsoft Access)
- Contributed to a legacy application for tracking student attendance (COBOL)


## Education
### B Information Technology (Honours) in Machine Learning
University of Technology Sydney
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
UNSW
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
University of Technology Sydney
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-fulthorp-a2804664

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Last updated: 2026-03-22