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Michael Whitney

New York,NY

Summary

Full-stack Software Engineer eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and organizational skills. Motivated to learn, grow, and excel in software development. Has a love of finding and squashing feature bugs.

Overview

3

3

years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer II

JOOR

New York, NY

05.2021 - 04.2023

Served on an agile team participating in weekly scrum meetings
Built and maintained multiple suite's of unit, E2E, and integration tests
Leading voice on daily PR reviews
Pair programmed with other engineers on multiple features and services
Refactored old front-end components, converting them into functional react components utilizing React hooks and Typescript
Lead a redesign of a main user homepage, moving the page from Joor's legacy web PHP service to a modern React component
Refactored gRPC methods to reduce total latency by an average of 50%
Developed and responsible for the backend of Joor's marketplace search page using Opensearch, Logstash, and GraphQL
Responsible for the last mile of a product domain redesign which included a data migration of over 200 million database records, utilizing Debezium and Kafka as a CDC pipeline
Paired with our Devops team to run deployments on new services using Helm charts to define our Kubernetes cluster

Software Engineer

Blink Health

New York, NY

06.2019 - 07.2020

Created and updated over 30 Datadog alerts and monitors to assist with team's weekly on-call triaging efforts and performance monitoring
Refactored Blink's Django based scheduling service, which also utilized AWS SQS and Celery, to coordinate same and near day execution of medication schedules leading to a reduction of number of packages sent to patients
Expanded customer facing communications (email, sms) resulting in over a 30% decrease in customer service related calls to our help department
Implemented custom message schema inspectors to connect Blink's custom service to service messaging library to a Swagger auto-documenting Django package

Education

Coding Bootcamp

App Academy, New York

05.2019

Skills

Python
Django
Javascript
Typescript
React
Redux
Nodejs
GraphQL
gRPC
HTML
CSS

SQL
Git
Celery
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
Opensearch
Kafka
SQS
TDD

Timeline

Software Engineer II - JOOR

05.2021 - 04.2023

Software Engineer - Blink Health

06.2019 - 07.2020

App Academy - , Coding Bootcamp