Michael Tracy Email & Phone Number

Winter Garden, FL, US

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

• At RealTruck, I am a Software Engineering Manager and Team Lead in charge of four direct reports, overseeing the development of an Event-Based, Serverless E-Commerce platform. While there I:
• Manage team members, holding 1-on-1s, and guiding career growth of my reports.
• Implemented a Kanban process for the team's daily work, dramatically improving cycle time.
• Design individual NodeJS services leveraging TypeScript, AWS, and deploying into AWS Lambda.

Orlando, Florida, US

• Developed RESTful APIs in Java, leveraging the Dropwizard.io stack.
• Introduced the team to BDD and Cucumber by developing a test-harness utilizing Cucumber-JVM.
• Trained QA in BDD workflows, and developed a library of Step-Definitions to translate User Stories into BDD Specs.

• Developed RESTful APIs for Abe's financial data services in JavaScript and NodeJS.
• Initiated, designed, and developed a Release Management solution for Abe.ai’s Managed Client Services.
• Trained teammates in Unit-Testing with Behavior-Driven Development techniques using Mocha, Sinon, and Chai.

Austin, Texas, US

• Consulted with the Orlando Fusion Middleware Managed Operations Division on DevOps practices and Agile Software Development Methodologies
• Introduced the team to Kanban, and helped the team structure their internal development around the essential Kaban ceremonies.
• Developed a transition plan for the existing custom automation framework to using Ansible and shifting to a stateful, Configuration Management paradigm.
• Provided guidance and generated training materials in Git, Testing, and Software Development Best Practices to the development team.

Orlando, Florida, US

• At Universal, I was a Team Lead in charge of two direct reports, part of the team working on Universal Parks Microservice Platform. While there I:
• Reduced sales support issues by 75% though a series of coordinated fixes to the ecommerce services.
• Introduced TDD principles to existing codebase, reducing the time to close defects by 50%.
• Guided and mentored junior engineers on the principles of testing, design patterns, and software engineering best-practices.

Winter Park, FL, US

• At Sonobi, my primary responsibility was improving the way the code was written, and developing the tools and technology to do so.
• Introduced the organization to TDD techniques, and helped bring code-coverage up from 0% to 80% on multiple projects.
• Developed a library for automating verifying Sonobi's publisher integrations, then extended that library to utilize Selenium and Puppeteer.
• Deployed an Apache Cloudstack installation to provide self-service VM provisioning to engineering.
• Created a CI pipeline utilizing BitBucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Docker, then extended the pipeline to perform CD using Ansible and Docker-Compose.
• Designed a new REST API in Python and Flask to automate the process retrieving, reviewing, and creating publisher orders through the Google DFP API.

Maitland, Florida, US

• At M2, I lead the team charged with new product and API development. My job was to design APIs, update legacy services to work with the new, and guide a small Agile team to build it.
• Led a team of three developers to design and develop a new system API using NodeJS to translate XML, SOAP, and legacy data to JSON served over a standardized REST service.
• Designed a system to read binary data-formats into standard Java Beans, then export the data via XML and JSON using Jackson.
• Automated end-to-end test procedures using a combination of JUnit and Mocha.
• Automated the existing deployment process into a Continuous-Integration pipeline using Jenkins and Maven.
• Introduced the company to Agile development processes, and established a Kanban workflow for project management.

Bethesda, MD, US

• At Lockheed, I worked as a Software Engineer on several government projects. Most notably, working on the delivery infrastructure for GOES-R (https://www.goes-r.gov/) imagery and weather data.
• Worked with NOAA meteorologists and data-scientists to develop Python algorithms to scale, remap, and translate geostationary satellite imagery.
• Designed a Java Axis2 service to integrate Python algorithms with the Enterprise framework used to deliver weather data to meteorologists across the country.
• Created a Python module translate weather data in binary formats (such as McIDAS and HRIT/EMWIN) to a generic, self-describing format (such as NetCDF or XML).
• Designed an RPM build system to automate deployment and configuration-management of Python and Java libraries onto Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Developed user interfaces with GWT.

Miami, FL, US

• Worked part-time assisting a professor in his research projects, primarily as a Java Developer.
• Implemented a SOAP Web Service client using the Apache Axis framework to connect US patent data with sibling patents from Europe and Japan.

• Worked for over two years as an IT technician for Intech Center, providing on-site and remote support. Responsibilities included providing technical support to clients, server administration, and deploying new network.
• Oversaw the buildout of VoIP systems for clients up to 50 users, including POTS termination and coordinating with gateway vendors.
• Managed Small-Office/Home-Office installations of Windows Server 2003 and Exchange.
• Ran cabling and deployed network hardware for small and mid-sized offices.
• Deployed VMWare Server for Small-Office/Home-Office to manage client applications such as Microsoft Exchange or Intuit Quickbooks.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Computer Engineering