Michael M. Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nv, Us

Due to our team's impressive growth, I volunteered to lead a newly formed team focused on the customer side of our "New Groups Experience".* Architect Solutions: Working along side other leadership to architect and usher features from conception to completion, emphasizing quality with speed to delivery. * Building a Thriving Culture: Fostering a collaborative and friendly environment where team members feel empowered and supported.* Growth mindset: Providing mentorship and opportunities where possible to further enhance the team's skills

Staff Rails Engineer working on the new Group Bookings experience.https://www.hotelengine.com/groups/

Reno, Nevada Area

Full Stack developerWorking closely with a handful of other amazing developers to build and maintain our contest/marketing delivery software. "Use ShortStack to create landing page contests; sweepstakes and quizzes; run hashtag and comment to enter social media contests; and send emails."Responsibilities cover developing on a MySQL flavored database, multiple Rails based server applications, developing on several frontend frameworks (Knockout, AngularJS, Vue.js).Highlights include:* Create DB migrations, relationships and adding appropriate indices for fast querying.* Integrating with 3rd party APIs (Chargify, Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Mixpanel, Sendgrid)* We maintain several RESTful microservices, all using Ruby on Rails, utilizing Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks. * Developing thoughtful UI and UX with the partnership of our graphic designers.All software is developed with stability and scalability as a core tenet.

Reno, Nevada Area

Highlights:Developed and maintained the presentation/game engine layer of IGT's AVP product. (Advanced Video Platform)Helped develop and maintain an OpenGL graphics engine.*Converted 3D engine's fixed function pipeline into a programmable one; created a procedural shader generation pipeline with the option of importing custom shaders.Assisted with AMD video driver bug/porting issues to our QNX platform.Implemented the framework for the PureDepth displays into the graphics engine.Helped design/maintain multi-monitor functionality and resolution filtering for graphics engine.Designed and maintained applications developed against the QNX OS, proficient with the Momentics IDE debugger.Developed and maintained Win32 / OpenGL applications while working with a multi-windowed and multi-monitor setup under Win7.