Mical Hogan

Accomplished expert in software development and quality assurance, with over 18 years of experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining solutions that drive team and project success. A servant-leader who leads by example, works hard, and brings clear value to every initiative. I combine a detail-oriented mindset with business acumen and deep .NET/C# expertise to deliver reliable, maintainable software. Passionate about continuous growth, I'm honing advanced AI principles—prompt engineering, LLM-based architectures, and ML-driven automation—to solve today's complex challenges, and pioneer tomorrow's intelligent applications. Above all, I love what I do and strive to be useful for the benefit of my team, company, and customers.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (2022–2026)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (2020)

• Multi-Lender Project (2024): Coordinated design, QA integration testing, defect triage, and stakeholder communication across three teams, delivering the feature on schedule.
• Mentorship: Guided QA colleagues into development roles through hands-on design workshops, code reviews, and paired-programming to share SOLID and TDD practices.
• Process & Documentation: Introduced feature-level design documentation and formal design-review sessions, aligning cross-team efforts and reducing mid-sprint rework.
• Executive Engagement: Reported progress, challenges, and timeline adjustments to executives and investors during custom platform builds.
• Hackathon Innovation: Developed AI-driven chatbot proof-of-concepts in company hackathons, demonstrating prompt-engineering techniques and Copilot-optimized scripts.
• Knowledge Sharing: Reformed and documented internal technical wikis and led workshops on Clean Code and automation best practices.