Michael Godshall Email & Phone Number

Spokane, Wa, Us

Coeur D'Alene, Id, Us

Granite Bay, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led team to consistently meet deadlines across multiple initiatives by raising up team members to lead projects while playing a supporting role, planning projects, sequencing work, identifying gaps, and removing blockers.Built a healthy team environment where engineers can thrive, receiving very positive feedback on leadership from managers and team members.Regularly checked in with team members on work and personal matters and encouraged collaboration through swarming or pairing on tickets.Strived to prevent burnout by addressing shadow work and ensuring all work was visible in JIRA, collaborating with project leads to create JIRA tickets and organize sprints.Notable successful team projects:- Built the Collective Payroll experience using 3rd party services and APIs.- Rebuilt the Compliance Reminder system to support all 50 states.- Overhauled member plans/pricing.- Streamlined the Quarterly Tax Estimate workflow.- Added new accounting provider for members.

Granite Bay, California, Us

Led engineering teams and projects for Federal Draw and Reporting (FDR), a SCRUM based agile project for the California Department of Healthcare Services.Led engineering teams with zero Python or Ember experience and deployed complex, enterprise applications for Siemens in record time.Worked directly with project managers, subject matter experts, and product designers in order to understand complex business logic and translated their needs into application architecture and database design.Planned weekly and bi-weekly sprints and stories in JIRA, organized and lead team meetings, reviewed pull requests from developers, and worked with clients to insure milestones were reached.Developed JSON APIs in Django and Flask and integrated them into Ember applications using Ember Data.Deployed applications to AWS using resources like Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, Lambda, S3, and CloudFront.Consulted as a Python expert for Sharp Healthcare to help their programmers transition a legacy CLI system to Python.Migrated a legacy production application from Python 2.7/Django 1.7 to Python 3.6/Django 1.11.Rebuilt an organization's mission-critical accounting system using the Salesforce API and Accounting Seed.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Responsible for all aspects of the development lifecycle: backend, JavaScript frontend, testing, debugging, deployment, and monitoring.Developed and deployed high-quality web applications for large marketing campaigns with millions of potential visitors.Created interactive, game-like experiences in AngularJS/API backend.Built a web application to collect hundreds of thousands of social media messages from Twitter and Instagram that was used to power numerous marketing campaigns and analytics applications via an API.Supported the dev team by streamlining the development workflow, build process, and removing headaches.Impressed clients by meeting demanding deadlines and turning deliverables around faster than expected.Delivered a custom blog in 2 days to Gap Inc. Received the following praise from one of their VPs: “This is an absolutely stunning achievement. You have done a spectacular job under a really tight timeframe, and this will help the company tremendously.”Developed a predictive analytics tool for 20th Century Fox that integrated audience behavior and social listening data to help optimize marketing spend for film franchises.Created an interactive digital experience for a AAA disaster preparedness campaign that educates and prepares the user by putting them directly in a disaster scenario.Built a platform for Verizon where participants shared messages of hope to victims of domestic violence around the world. Collected and displayed user-generated content from across social media and Twilio.Launched an interactive platform for The White House to educate and empower people to take action in reforming the criminal justice system.

Developed an online scheduling application for a small startup that streamlines the booking process for appointment based businesses.Created a single page mobile web app with an API backend.Responsible for integrating several third party services like Authorize.net, Stripe, Facebook, Amazon SES, and Tropo.Configured a virtual private server from scratch and streamlined the deployment process.Consistently reached goals, receiving bonuses on a monthly basis.

Developed a project management application for the Marketing Director at HID Global that helped to increase her department's productivity, quality and communication worldwide. Her department received recognition for this tool from upper management for saving the company money and making it more efficient.Created a collaborative sales application that coordinates millions of dollars in sales every year for HID Global. Successfully met demanding project deadlines.Built a real-time Facebook web application for Athleta’s Finish Strong campaign using Node.js that aggregated inspirational pledges from their customers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.Developed a Facebook web app for Ford’s Community Changes campaign that allowed people to book free appointments at several Ford dealerships.Created a platform for Ford's The People's Fleet campaign where users collectively completed tasks through social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube to help their favorite non-profit organizations.

La Mirada, Ca, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Master Of Arts, Biblical And Theological Studies