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Mitchell Lane - Director of Bit Foundry

Mitchell Lane
Director

Hi, I’m Mitchell Lane (everyone knows me as Mitch).

I created Bit Foundry to provide businesses with software that adds real value; we create software that delights your customers and has a focus on the needs of your business to help you thrive.

Making flexibility and continuous improvement a priority has allowed me to build a reputation for consistently being able to provide big-picture solutions even under pressure or when I need to work with unfamiliar technologies to meet the goal.

I can help you create positive customer experiences and being a small business, have the advantage of being able to adjust quickly to suit the needs of your project whatever its size.

History

My journey in software engineering started in the video games industry having studied Computer Games Technology at the University of Portsmouth until MSc level. In addition to my studies, myself and several other students took part in the international 'Dare To Be Digital' competition during our summer break.

During Dare to Be Digital our team spent 10 weeks creating a prototype game under the mentoring of top industry talent from studios including Rockstar North and Realtime Worlds. As a result of my work on graphics optimisation we won the ‘Intel Visual Adrenaline’ award and our work was showcased by Intel at GDC Austin; which was one of the largest video game conferences on the calendar.

From there I moved into public safety, taking a role at NICE Systems where I built software to aid the emergency services to work as effectively as possible and safeguard the public. In addition to my development responsibilities I took on technical ownership roles which included becoming a design authority and build controller during my time there.

Expertise

In addition to over seven years of experience within software development, I am particularly well placed for creating solutions within the following areas:

  • Crafting build and continuous integration systems for both small and large projects
  • Automated deployment of complex systems that can scale to meet demand and minimize cost
  • Developing solutions for the public safety sector - including projects requiring security clearance
  • Working with the Microsoft .NET ecosystem, especially using the C# language
  • Creating tools and workflows to simplify the development process, improve productivity and save money
  • Working within positions that require security clearance (specifically NPPV3 + SC)

Some of the products, frameworks and technologies I have experience with are shown below:

C# PowerShell Git TFS HTML CSS SASS JavaScript TeamCity WiX C++ F# Black Duck LINQ SQL Azure Entity Framework .NET WinForms WPF MSBuild Webpack ElasticSearch FAKE CAKE Windows Linux ASP.NET jQuery

Testimonials

Jon Pickett, Development Manager at Active Navigation

Mitch worked with us for over 12 months across multiple product teams and provided an assured presence throughout. All of his work was of the highest quality, delivered in a thorough and timely manner. I could rely on Mitch to provide clear communications as well as visibility of his progress throughout the development lifecycle and across iterations. His knowledge and technical competency is on a par with the very best developers I have worked with and I valued his thoughtful input into any discussion or complex development problem solving challenge we encountered.

I would have no hesitation is recommending Mitch to others and hope to have the opportunity to work with him and Bit Foundry again in the future.

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