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Michael.
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Who is Michael?
Purpose, Passion, Patience
Community, Collaboration,
Learning, Leading,
I am passionate about building things on the web.
I love solving challenging problems in new ways, and making a positive difference
in the world.
I survive on a diet of coffee learning something new
everyday.
I revel in the unknown, and the experimental.
I am empowered by teammates who feel the same way.
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Skills & Tech
- Feature & Project Ownership: Capacity Planning, Risk Assessment
- End to End Software Dev: System Design, Implementation, and Execution
- Full Stack Web Dev: Responsive Design, Scalable Services, and Database Architecture
- Continuous Integration and End-to-End Test Automation
- Cross Functional Team Work, Front-facing customer communications
- Familiar with (loves!) fast pace and small teams
Work
Software Engineer, Operations
Pattern Research
March 2023 - Present
- Planned, developed, implementend and maintained services written in Rust, Python, and Vue
- Services I worked on are used for Market and Trading analysis, as well as inter-exchange account transfers that range up to $1M USD per day
- Development and maintenance of development and deployment CI, as well as production infrastructure hosted on EKS
- Working with internal end users to build short term features, and prepare a long term firm vision for our services
- Took a lead role in compute resource cost management, as well as engineer mentorship and time management
Full Stack Software Engineer
Unit21
February 2022 - March 2023
- Designed and implemented features for fraud identification and case management solutions
- Designed, implemented, and maintained a number of microservices, with attention to security, performance at scale, and maintainability
- Co-lead a redesign, and implementation of our government reporting pipeline, shipped with issue detection and performance monitoring
- Triaging and resolving urgent customer issues, particularly regarding data integrity
- Leading cross-team coordination to ensure good customer communication and careful problem resolution
Senior Quality Engineer
MicroStrategy
August 2019 - February 2022
- Designed and executed performance test suites focused on multiple core MSTR server functionalities
- Designed and and implemtended automated test pipelines for stability, security, and functionality tests
- Developed and maintained end-to-end security automation for TLS functionality for a large range of different operating systems
- Maintained existing testing infrastructure in company-wide CI/CD pipelines
Undergraduate Researcher
George Mason University
June 2018 - April 2019
- Research in Autonomous Vehicle Integration and Design, as well as modern vehicle safety
- Designed and developed Open Dataset Labeling Software
- Research and education in modern data mining techniques for vehicle classification
Lead Afterschool Teacher
Stem ExCEL
April 2016 - August 2018
- Taught elementary and middle school children skills in computer game design, programming, and electrical engineering
School & Certs
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation
January 2022 - January 2025
see cert →Computer Science, B.S., Linguistics Minor
George Mason University
August 2015 - May 2019
Studied ethical hacking, operating systems, physics, statistics, and, machine learning. Graduated with a 3.8.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Program
George C. Marshall Highschool
August 2011 - May 2015
High School curriculum with collegant elements. If you're familiar with AP, it's somewhat similar, but, with a greater focus on international studies, and requires a thesis. I did mine on the E-Voting system in Estonia in 2015.