Michael Berger Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

Backend developer for a popular media app for children. Helped extend and scale features for a company reaching 12k requests per second.Features:AB Test Framework - Expanded current AB Test system for needs of growing product team. Built and designed interface for bucketing different percentages of users, forcing users into certain buckets and creating AB Tests automatically, among other features.Data Consistency Project - Helped company consolidate on a single definition for what a book-read meant in the system. Handled data migration successfully and helped decrease user complaints for why reading information wasn't consistent.Tax Integration - Helped Epic! become tax compliant by handling integration with Avalara's AvaTax API. Successfully helped design an interface to pass the sales tax onto the customerStripe Retention Project - Was main engineer on highly visible retention project to help reduce involuntary churn. Successfully refactored integration with Stripe to handle previously unfound bugs and seemingly insurmountable complexity within the codebase. Leadership: Was eventually main in-person contact for the core backend team in the office, as well as the primary liaison for mobile teams for a period of time. Led code clean-up efforts by writing custom bash scripts to identify unused functions in the code base and also wrote up a variety of security issues as they were found. Assisted with interviewing both backend and client engineers. Worked with cross-functional teams across engineering, marketing, content and data teams to ensure projects were scoped and built on time with strong results.Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Git, UNIX/Linux, Regex, Memcached, PHP-Storm/Vim

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Back-end Software Engineer I for Professional Services teamLed and developed a complete rewrite of our metadata-ingestion for all new customers; increased processing speed over 100 times the old processLed and developed new infrastructure for downloading assets through Webdam's core product's APILed and developed Box-Webdam server-to-server integration projectLed and developed integration between Webdam and Percolate's Asset ManagerCoordinated and developed view-tracking project in Webdam's core productCustom CSS + Javascript + HTML for a variety of customersTools used: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, git, OOP, AWS, Javascript, Unix

Sunnyvale, California, Us

• Integral member of development team of 12 engineers building a B2B ordering and social site for a series-A funded company• Developed interactive pop-ups, multi-step modals, hover-over effects, conversion scripts and API end points along with bug fixes• Training/experience in JavaScript/JQuery, Backbone.JS, Require.JS, Grunt, Handlebars.JS, LESS, Q library (for promises), PHP, SLIM MVC framework, MySQL, Bitbucket pull-request system, Git, and Unix• Started on a 3 month contract, had it extended for meeting and exceeding expectations

Verona, Wi, Us

• Responsible for getting up to speed and testing functionality for a data warehouse for hospitals (and sharing that knowledge with teammates)• Wrote validation scripts and test plans, reviewed designs and other team members' test plans • Became most tenured full-time QA member of data warehouse testing team by March 2013• Was responsible for work assignment for the team (development log triage)• Worked extensively with T-SQL• Wrote over 250 issue notes in one year• Started and led group identifying improvements in QA reporting division

Double Black Belt, Rails, Mean, Lamp, Html/Css

Bachelor'S Degree, Cum Laude Graduate, Political Science And Government