Michael Deutsch Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

I served as tech lead for a team of 3 to 4 engineers, doing scoping, technical design, development, code reviews, and testing.* Developed technical designs for upcoming projects, working with Product and UX to finalize requirements* Helped implement Scrum processes within the product development team* Coordinated the identification and prioritization of tech debt initiatives* Reduced automated test runtime by 30% by identifying and eliminating the use of slow factories

Wakefield, Massachusetts, Us

As tech lead on one of Veracross’s product teams, I made improvements to Ruby on Rails applications that talk to a SQL Server codebase while also helping the engineering organization modernize its team dynamics and processes.Technical leadership* Supported team members’ professional development by introducing practices such as peer code reviews, collaborative technical design, and regular tech talks* Helped improve the team’s efficiency and predictability while serving as its first scrum master; facilitated grooming, estimation, planning, standups, and retrospectives* Participated in engineering-wide initiatives that included updating our interview process, establishing patterns for unit testing, and designing a technical RFC processSelected projects* Inherited and delivered a multi-factor authentication project while setting the stage for follow-up work* Refactored large portions of the user authentication service with only two minutes of downtime* Evaluated vendors and delivered Veracross’s first continuous integration pipelines

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

In my time at PatientsLikeMe I worked on a number of different teams including general Rails development, data warehousing, software architecture, and developer experience.Technical leadership* Served as tech lead and scrum master for teams of 2 to 4 engineers* Led regular meetings of technical and operational leaders across the engineering team* Supported developers across the engineering organization by reviewing proposals, designs, code, and data models* Acted as an expert resource on our data model and codebase* Gave talks on topics of interest to the entire engineering teamSelected projects* Developed patterns and practices for building APIs which enabled the team to build modern web and mobile apps on top of pre-existing business logic. Wrote and released the simple_jsonapi and simple_jsonapi_rails Ruby gems* Designed and built a reporting database for medical and user activity data, and the Ruby/SQL ETL to populate it* Converted search features from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch, significantly improving performance* Upgraded a 10-year-old, 150-kloc codebase from Rails 4.2 to 5.0 to 5.1 to 5.2

As one of two lead developers on an internationally-distributed, fully-remote team, I helped build LienLog, a service that investors use to manage and analyze their real estate tax lien portfolios.* Developed the initial prototype and various subsequent modules using Ruby on Rails and MySQL* Developed analysis tools that applied the appropriate laws for more than two dozen U.S. states to calculate each lien’s current value and project future returns

I had led the development team at Data-Rite that implemented an investment analysis and reporting system for PEI. When Data-Rite ceased operations, I continued working for PEI as a part-time consultant.* Designed a database, web application, and reports that supported multiple sets of business rules and user overrides of most data elements* Developed an ETL to import investment data from multi-gigabyte XML files* Automated running and collating up to several hundred SSRS reports into a single, client-ready PDF file using a combination of built-in and user-defined page sequencing logic

Supported, and developed enhancements for, MGH eMAR, the electronic medication administration record at Massachusetts General Hospital.

New York, Ny, Us

Led teams of 1 to 3 developers in the design and implementation of new systems for clients in the financial services industry. Worked directly with clients through all phases of the development process, from initial scoping discussions through development and user acceptance testingSelected projects* Developed a margin maintenance system for a hedge fund that merged data from an order management system, pricing sources, and trading counterparties to create a comprehensive view of their margin requirements* Developed the National Palliative Care Registry, a survey platform targeted at palliative care programs nationwide

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed and developed enhancements to CRICO’s insurance claims and underwriting management system and other transaction and analytical systems.Selected projects* Implemented application and reporting logic to allocate payments and reserves among defendants on a claim, providing access to defendant-level data in the transaction system for the first time* Proposed and implemented a rewrite of coverage period logic and validation, halting a steady stream of bug reports