# Michael Pepping

## Summary

Michael Pepping is a senior full stack engineer and technical lead based in Brisbane, Australia. He builds thoughtful, scalable web platforms, including agentic and multimodal products, and remains deeply hands-on across frontend, backend, infrastructure, deployment, databases, testing, and security-minded engineering.

## Professional focus

- Primary languages: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python.
- Target roles: Senior Full Stack Engineer, Product Engineer, Platform Engineer, and hands-on Technical Lead.
- Location: Brisbane, Australia. Open to suitable individual-contributor and technical leadership opportunities.

Michael is open to senior individual-contributor, product engineering, full stack, and technical leadership opportunities. He uses AI responsibly as a practical development tool while keeping engineering judgement and human review central.

## Contact

- Email: mailto:mikepepping@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpepping/
- GitHub: https://github.com/mikepepping

## Selected work

- Mosaica: https://mosaica.app/ — An agentic platform that analyses PDFs, images, websites, and videos to assess cultural market fit across audience segments. It turns researched, data-backed insights into guidance for tailoring messages to specific cohorts. Michael is Technical Lead and a hands-on contributor across the product platform, including the underlying scanning systems.
- Cultural Atlas: https://theculturalatlas.org/ — Cultural research and learning platform, formerly SBS Cultural Atlas. Michael’s work on the platform spans International Education Services, Incluude, and Mosaica.
- Inclusion Program: https://inclusion-program.com.au/ — SBS-produced online inclusion training platform. Michael contributed heavily to the portal and course-viewer experience.
- Incluude: Former Mosaica product providing an online library of inclusion research for researchers, DEI professionals, and the wider community.

## Public technical work

Michael maintains public repositories and explorations covering webhooks, Go APIs and CLI tools, C/Game Boy development, and experimental language work.

- standard-webhooks: https://github.com/mikepepping/standard-webhooks — Contributed Go library documentation maintenance, including correcting the library import path in the project README: https://github.com/mikepepping/standard-webhooks/commit/9e11577409d8581b08deda8b538666da4456dd39
- daily-goggles: https://github.com/mikepepping/daily-goggles — Go terminal checklist tool.
- vampire-hunter-gb: https://github.com/mikepepping/vampire-hunter-gb — C game development for the original Game Boy.
- grape-jwt-authentication: https://github.com/hausgold/grape-jwt-authentication — Michael contributed documentation updates to this reusable JWT authentication concern for Grape APIs.

## Experience

- Technical Lead, Mosaica — July 2025 to present.
- Senior Full Stack, Mosaica — March 2021 to July 2025.
- Web Developer, International Education Services — August 2019 to March 2021.
- Business & Digital Strategy Manager, Bells Property Services — January 2014 to August 2019.
- Business Systems Software Developer, Runge ICT Group — February 2012 to December 2013.
- Games Programmer, Bifrost Studios — September 2011 to February 2012.

## Education

Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment, Game Development — Qantm College.