As a founding software engineer at Kojo, I built the initial version of the platform and have been instrumental in growing the team and product. I've proven I have what it takes to make a company grow from a small team of 6 to over 100 employees, driving everything from core platform, APIs, infrastructure, CI/CD tooling, and developer tooling, to AI models, frontend, and more. In addition to direct engineering work, I've interviewed hundreds of candidates and mentored dozens of engineers.But don't just take it from me; here's a quote from one of my peers:"Michael is quickly able to find good solutions to problems, and often in areas he's not familiar with. I've never worked with someone as adept as Michael about diving in somewhere new, and quickly providing insight in ways that others miss/overlook. He's a truly valuable asset in filling in gaps in our general triaging/incident response procedures, and I trust that the work he produces will be done thoughtfully and effectively."

Developed and maintained real-time streaming pipelines, with an emphasis on spam/fraud/abuse detection & prevention. Built a rule-engine called Guardian to process 10k events per second using both hand-written rules and ML models, reducing infrastructure costs by close to 20x. Also wrote an in-memory storage engine for Guardian to allow for fast querying of real-time data to identify attack vectors and malicious actors quickly.

I worked in Infrastructure on the Shard Manager team. Our team was responsible for Shard Manager, one of the most core pieces of infrastructure at Facebook. During my short time there, I worked on two main projects:My first project was adding a caching layer to our Shard Manager tool to improve both performance and reliability of our systems. Additionally, when systems were down, my tool allowed us to better diagnose issues and fix them.My second project involved decreasing overhead from Zookeeper. I solved this by removing substantial lock contention throughout our ZK library. There were a lot of dangers when changing/removing locks since ZK is relied upon by many core systems at Facebook, but the impact was large enough to justify it.

I worked with the Developer Platform team to improve Pinterest's internal and external APIs. I built a service in Elixir that could materialize data based on JSON, GraphQL, and Thrift requests. It performed a variety of filtering and joining logic, to preserve user privacy and minimize request traffic.Additionally, I contributed to a variety of open-source projects in Elixir, and also helped prepare Riffed for open-source.

• Led an API migration for one of the Higher Education products• Developed and deployed tools to aid with caching compiled code, that save countless hours of compile time• Built a drag+drop graph building tool during a Hackathon that simplifies QA work

• Helped students improve their Calculus skills by giving detailed feedback on assignments• Worked one-on-one in the Tutorial Centre to provide assistance in learning course materials• Received an outstanding performance evaluation in December 2012

• Developed and maintained web applications, databases, and management systems used by thousands of co-op students and university staff• Always challenged tasks received to exceed expectations and build new tools or improve documentation

• Extensive low-level audio programming on Xbox One• Built/integrated sound mixing tools for sound designers to develop a richer-sounding game• Improved workflows for multiple teams by building a variety of tools

• Designed and managed a variety of tools and integration projects for the audio pipeline• Worked with distributed computing solutions to develop nightly automated tasks• Developed on Xbox One