MICHAEL ORLOWSKI
The Options Clearing Corporation / Axoni
Chicago,Illinois
13
years of professional experience
1
Certification
3
Languages
Dynamic software professional with a strong background in team collaboration, recognized for strategic problem-solving and effective communication in fast-paced environments. Expertise in driving projects to successful completion while maintaining high standards and delivering impactful results. Demonstrated ability to manage projects efficiently, coordinate teams seamlessly, and perform consistently under pressure. Committed to fostering a collaborative atmosphere that enhances productivity and drives organizational success.
Work History
Lead Associate Principal
6 Years 4 Months- Successfully have developed and tested features and fixed bugs using tools such as Claude Code for enhanced productivity.
- Developed Scala-based service reconciler to process real-time messages from old stock loan system to new system, ensuring accurate transaction reconciliation during the day and implementing end-of-day reconciliation for discrepancies.
- Helped transition stock loan to a new Akka Streams based backend that reads CRUD commands to process stock loan transactions previously sent to Axoni’s permissioned ledger developed by Axoni after problems arose with it. The regression to transitioning to it was fully successful.
- Frequently joined on-call rotations to investigate issues that have arisen from mid day transaction processing, end of day long running job failures, authentication issues and other various issues for various OCC environments.
- Built a microservices based architecture stock loan transaction processing system based on a Scala backend and React frontend, deployed via Kubernetes, utilizing a permissioned ledger platform from Axoni from the beginning as a greenfield project to an accepted product ready for production and already used in various production-like testing environments.
- Wrote automated unit and integration tests in Scala to be run in our build pipelines.
- Deployed releases from a vendor environment to various OCC Kubernetes environments using Harness and Rancher.
- Interviewed and trained new hires to develop for the stock loan system
- Coordinated communication among QA, integration, devops, and other dependent teams to enhance collaboration and streamline stock loan processes.
- Frequently completed most story points per sprint and became SME on the system
Software Engineer
2 Years 4 Months- Developed versioning feature in internal REST API framework, created tools to detect breaking API contract changes, and demonstrated functionality by successfully versioning existing Relativity API for managing Relativity objects using Powershell.
- Contributed to design, planning, and implementation of rewrite for service hosting and service discovery system to modernize platform and enhance stability in C#.
- Developed rotating signing certificate feature for Azure Service Fabric deployed OAuth2 based authentication micro-service and on-premise authentication pipeline in C#.
- Worked on a variety of feature enhancements and bug fixes for our domain of ownership.
- Responded to on-call requests to resolve customer issues.
- Acquired a Relativity Certified Administrator certificate by passing the Relativity Certified Administrator exam.
Software Development Engineer
1 Year 9 Months- Developed a brand new Java 8 based REST API to expose a new package search service in order to deprecate the older package shopping API and support the new package shopping experience.
- Enhanced new package shopping experience through feature improvements, testing, and bug fixes.
- Worked on a variety of feature enhancements, test and learns, and bug fixes to enhance the new package shopping experience.
- Augmented car shopping experience with feature enhancements, testing, and bug fixes.
Technology Summer Analyst
3 Months- Engaged in the full software design life cycle model from story mapping to gathering technical requirements and integrating a regulatory tool with a new research publishing platform.
- Gained experience working in a team to design and implement features on software that underwent continual development and periodic releases with new features.
Teaching Assistant
1 Year- Conducted lab sessions to support students in coursework and evaluated assignments for courses:
- CS 201: Accelerated Introduction to Computer Science, CS 331: Data Structures and Algorithms, CS 350: Computer Organization & Assembly Language Programming
- CS 331: Data Structures and Algorithms
- CS 350: Computer Organization & Assembly Language Programming
Embedded Software Engineering Intern
3 Months- Analyzed Cyanogenmod (Android) source tree for Motorola XT1053 to understand implementation of Privacy Guard feature in Settings APK for potential enhancements.
- Interfaced with third-party code base of two operating systems for mobile phone to query temperature and execute tasks based on threshold conditions.
- Designed and developed logging API prototype in C for mobile phone to streamline storage and management of critical logging information for device development.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science with a Minor in Applied Mathematics
- Major GPA : 3.67
- GPA: 3.56
Skills
Languages: Scala
Java
C#
Python
SQL
JSON
YAML
Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
Javascript
Bash
PowerShell
R
C
Backend Frameworks & Libraries: Akka
Scala Play
Slick
Undertow
Spring Boot
Microsoft WebAPI
ASP.NET
Integrations & Middleware: IBM MQ
Kafka
Forgerock/Okta
AWS S3
Azure (Functions
Key Vault
Service Fabric)
DevOps & Cloud: Kubernetes (k8s) & minikube
Docker & Podman
Helm
Rancher
Jenkins
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Data management: Splunk
Postgres SQL
Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)
Logentries
New Relic
Frontend: React
Ember.js
Development Tools: IntelliJ IDEA
Visual Studios
SQL Server Management Studio
VIM
Build Tools: SBT
Gradle
NuGet
MSBuild
Version control: git
Github/Gitlab
Perforce
AI: Claude Code
Certification
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Coursera
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Polish
Limited Working
Chinese (Mandarin)
Elementary
Timeline
Lead Associate Principal
The Options Clearing Corporation / Axoni
06.2020 - CurrentRead More
Software Engineer
Relativity ODA LLC.
01.2018 - 05.2020Read More
Software Development Engineer
Expedia, Inc.
01.2016 - 10.2017Read More
Technology Summer Analyst
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
05.2015 - 08.2015Read More
Embedded Software Engineering Intern
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
05.2014 - 08.2014Read More
Teaching Assistant
Illinois Institute of Technology.
01.2014 - 01.2015Read More
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science with a Minor in Applied Mathematics
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