Michael Walls

• Manage several Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCP comprising dozens of nodes each, with hundreds of total deployed services.
• Provide guidance to development teams when designing or refactoring services to leverage Kubernetes, Argo workflows, and various cloud service products.
• Serve as Tier 3 support for a team with 85 members and growing.

• Serve on several committees to determine standards related to API development and technologies.
• Individual contributor for projects aimed at accelerating time to market for common API implementation patterns. Most of these efforts involve introducing declarative CI/CD pipeline definitions, code generation implementing good practices, and Kubernetes manifest generation.

Senior Software Engineer

• Team leader and manager.
• Design and implementation of scalable, fault tolerant weather and agronomic API's serving millions of hits per day with global availability; written in python.
• Schema design and related client side code optimization for Apache Cassandra use cases.
• Translation of written scientific documents to consumable services.
• Operation and maintenance of agronomic services hosted in AWS and orchestrated by Kubernetes.

• Creation of intranet framework used as the foundation for several internal management processes for the university.
• Design, development, and deployment of several paperless workflow solutions.
• Collaborated on modernization of the university's web site, including the addition of several plugins for use with the chosen content management system.

• Ongoing development of content management system built by the Aerospace Network. This online system (Ez Learning Management System) was used for facilitating online courses for thousands of students, the creation of assessment materials, course evaluations, scheduling, and file-sharing. Added the ability to dynamically create online tests and homework by processing uploaded Microsoft Word documents.
• Created solutions for the School of Aerospace including but not limited to card processing, and automated background checks (required for candidates to receive training certificates).
• Developed software to allow student scheduling of limited physical resources, such as flight simulation equipment.