Michael Burstein Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- created a python script which reduced the manual effort of formatting excel sheets from Jira Test Plans to the format required in Azure test plans (collectively reduced thousands of hours and dollars regarding migration efforts)-Cordinated and planned efforts to migrate teams to different SaaS PaaS solutions then their existing tool suites (bitbucket --> Github / bamboo --> Github Actions / Jira --> Azure) - training employees totalling a count of +30 employees on what their new tools suite for development operations- Developed solutions to automate the configuration and pipeline creation for every repository stored in Github and their Github Actions. This automation will be ran for hundreds of repositories varying of Java and Javascript based applications-

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Created an automated process which reads IDM requests with Kafka to create users on the vendor Box. Approximately saved thousands of hours of work (and dollars) by automating this process for our application. This essentially removes the need for an administrator to create an account for each existing and new user.• Created a platform utilizing the vendor ‘Box’ onto Northern Trust’s enterprise which consists of three services: a frontend (JavaScript based) application which handles the UI, a backend service leveraging Java Spring Boot, and an enterprise managed application which acts as a proxy.• Trained an entry level associate on the role and responsibilities of a Software Developer.• Responsible for the deployment of production code on a bi-weekly basis. Raising requests via ServiceNow, attaching appropriate documentations (Expected changes, Product owner sign offs, regression testing, and vulnerability reports), and chasing required approvals with management and ‘Change Approval Boards’.• Created documentations on Confluence to adhere to audits on details regarding training new employees, development, architecture and deployment strategies,

• I am responsible for the safety and well-being of 6+ soldiers during military operations and Field Artillery fire missions.• Involved with the planning and coordination of activities during the allotted drill time provided. With the given times we have we train soldiers to become proficient in their Warrior tasks as well as the MOS proficiencies• Awarded Battalion’s best soldier of the year 2019 and awarded the Army Achievement medal 2022.• Organized large troop movements of +30 soldiers while managing ~$1,000,000 across a running total of ~+1,000 miles.• Life/career coach to younger enlisted soldiers as they navigate their early career stages.• Performed in the role and responsibilities above my current rank as a gun chief for several emplacements and fire missions.

As a senior associate software developer at discover financial services, my responsibilities are to modernize, maintain, and develop java API/microservices that sit on top of legacy apps. As a Java dev, we are primarily tasked with modernizing applications to become real-time, whereas the applications now run weekly/monthly. We develop using agile/kanban frameworks to continuously develop and work in a flexible environment. We are also responsible to adhere to any issues that arrive in production to alleviate customer/consumers problems. We ensure that we always have the latest security dependencies updated to always comply with PCI compliance standards as we are a financial institution that manages 50+ million customers. Skills utilized are the following: Github, Jenkins, PCF, Java Spring Batch, Java Microservices, Gemfire, Cassandra, Oracle SQL, Unix/AIX, Shell Scripts (Perl, Linux), Kafka/event bus/flux services, API Management (postman, JWT authentication, ), CI/CD, and AppD monitoring.

United States

full time software developer at discover financial services at their main headquarters in Riverwoods, IL

Dekalb, Illinois

Developed experimental Full Stack applications which handled data being published through a flux stream. These applications were hosted on AWS and we also utilized AWS servers to manage/monitor the health of our apps. One application I developed produced data visualization for Discover to see how certain events change over time (more consumers/customers using various services over time). Tech Stack:React JS (Front End)Node JS / Java (Back End)Oracle SQL (Database)

Professional Certificate In Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.32

I am pursuing my MBA for the purpose of becoming a lead software developer, management/executive roles in the software industry.

Computer Science, Software Development, 3.16

Computer Science