Michael B. Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Sandy, Ut, Us

Skunkworks - data center product development

- Prepared students for industry certifications. Achieved 94% pass rate. Over 30 certifications total.- Improved internal systems by modernizing tools and infrastructures, reporting bugs, curating training resources, updating processes, and laying groundwork for new program in cybersecurity- Mentored teams to win 1st and 2nd place at state Technology Student Association web competition- Earned Associates in Education License + endorsements for both Software and Web Programming- Nominated 3 students that were awarded UT Aspirations in Computing honor

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- Directed software engineering and interfaced directly with director of hardware- Decreased customer cost of entry by over 50%/$1000 per device (Flutter, SPA)- Interviewed, trained, and managed 5 multi-national remote engineers for 3 products- Oversaw large projects, conducted R&D, selected technologies and direction- Built fault-tolerant, cross-platform applications to track cattle habits, history, and location (CouchDB, IoT, raspi)- Ported monolith to microservices and increased deployment velocity by 5x (Alpine Linux, Docker)- Created software systems that successfully detected and thwarted network attack within minutes- Optimized 500-line query to run in seconds instead of hours (CouchDB, MySQL, SQLite)- Wrote 100 API tests, monitors, and alerts (PagerDuty, Postman, Slack API)- Other: built user-friendly ETL, ensured cross-platform compatibility, managed servers, used BugfenderWe build mobile (SPA), web (SaaS), and mobile apps that enable customers to track high value animal assets. Our reports help identify issues: outliers, sick, lost, pregnant, sold, purchased, need vaccinations, missing, or moved. We exist to streamline logistical and financial issues experienced by ranchers of small and large ranches. We also make the bank loan officers happy by providing reports that decreases risk and increase ROI.Millions of animals, billions of data points, fault-tolerant networking and data collection, scalable reports, IoT, one goal: healthier, happier cows.

Worked with an early growth company to make hospital emergency departments more efficient, cutting costs, streamlining services, and saving more lives. This had the potential to impact thousands if not millions of lives.- Tested REST APIs by Automating and containerizing tests using JMeter, Postman, Bash , ElastAlert, and ElasticSearch- Conducted manual integration tests- Skills/tools used: Bash, Clubhouse, JMeter, GCP, Kubernetes, Linux, Postman, SSH, VMs, and more

Round Rock, Texas, Us

I worked with a great team of bright people using several technologies to test infrastructure and new products.System Testing- Automated anomaly detection (DNS, Docker, Docker Swarm, firewall, self-healing)- Assisted disaster recovery drills- Automated e2e, performenace, stress tests and canaries (Docker, JMeter, newman)- Tested infrastructure changes for security compliance, quality, and functional completeness- Wrote documentationNotable Contributions- Built dashboards, visualizations, monitoring and reporting framework for 3 environments (Dashing.io, Elasticstack, ElastAlert)- Assisted DevOps team in making test environments more consistent- Assisted standing up performance test environment, consisting of over 75 virtual machines managed by SaltStack- Assisted design of reusable and automated testing templates which decreased engineering overhead- Excercised an entire datacenter by scripting deployment of 1000 virtual machines in GCP via GCE. Completed alone in 1 week on-time, under budget. Found GCP and Docker bugs along the way.- Rewarded 2 times with Excellence@DELL (Silver Award) for improving CICD and operations- Tested backup clients and their restore process via Docker containers of terabytes of dataI know you read this if you ask about exercising an entire data center!Other

Provo, Ut, Us

Integration and System Testing- Ticketed bugs and feature requests- Improved suite of automated tests (streamlined, simplified, hardened, and made more reliable).- Ensured test system stability- Decreased errors and bugs- Regression testing- Defect retestingQuality Assurance- Reviewed code changes of high priority tickets- Parallelized tests- Tested builds for stability, integrity, and core functionality using both manual and automated proceduresBuilding- Stood up and configured internal Jira system- Prepared builds across multiple systems and Git repositories- Deployed high priority fixesLeadership/Coordination- Conducted interviews, training, and assessments of hires- Directed and managed team of 3 to test 2 enterprise systems- Streamlined code review process by building custom chrome extension- Communicated effectively with developers when tickets introduced bugs or did not fulfill scope- Published release notes

Provo, Ut, Us

Our system accepts payments from thousands of people per year and minimized downtime is critical.- Assisted in conversion to new framework- Engineered new functionality- Reviewed code changes- Tested code changes- Debugged multiple systems (ColdFusion, JavaScript, MS SQL, jQuery, CSS)- Recovered corrupted Git repo saving team 8+ hours of work.- Solved problems promptly and within scope- Other skills used: Jira, Bitbucket

Provo, Ut, Us

The GloWbE corpus was the largest of its kind, being comprised of over 1 billion English words, stratified based on dialect/location (http://corpora.byu.edu). In this role I performed the following:- Streamlined the curation of millions of documents- Wrote Linux scripts- Integrated various NLP Linux tools into the pipeline- Stood up VMsSee http://corpus.byu.edu/faq.asp#x2 for more information.

Provo, Ut, Us

- Fully ported iOS app- Consumed REST APIs- Wrote sqlite queries, C#, JavaScript, HTML- Apply gene sequence alignment algorithm to NLP tasks to make plagiarism detection more robustAt http://scriptures.byu.edu/wpsci/, you may side-load the app or view screenshots of it.

Provo, Ut, Us

- Worked as administrator of 4+ servers hosting approximately 80 CMS websites- Managed multiple LAMP platforms- Monitored backups- Updated websites, focusing on performance and security- Assisted in publishing content in accordance with law, avoiding up to $30k/year in fines

Provo, Ut, Us

- Helped migrate from Documentum to Joomla- Built CSS parser to optimize CSS across multiple websites

Master’S Degree, Computational Linguistics

Ba, Linguistics

Aas, General