Michael S Rubin
Yardley,PA
Summary
Experienced software professional skilled in developing innovative solutions and leading high-performing teams. Passionate about building exceptional software products, managing people, and delivering successful projects on time.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering
GovOS
08.2023 - Current
- Technologies: C# .NET 4.8 & Core, Azure, jQuery, Azure SQL Server, Microservices, Azure DevOps, Node.js, GCP, React, PostgreSQL
- Oversee engineering and QA for two product lines, and a team of 37 resources.
- Hired 15 near-shore and two on-shore engineers and manage existing 17 off-shore resources.
- Implemented consistent processes across teams to improve predictability and quality of output.
- Spearheaded company-wide effort to improve communication and documentation across departments by leveraging Jira / Confluence and automation integrations to Slack.
- Received "Immediate Impact" award during company off-site.
- Seeking new opportunity after short tenure due to role misrepresentation.
Director of Engineering
T2 Systems
01.2017 - 08.2023
- Technologies: C# .NET 4.8, Azure, jQuery, Azure SQL Server, Microservices, Azure DevOps, Java 17, Spring, MySQL, Angular, Jenkins
- For UPsafety product line, started as sole on-site developer for enforcement software solution used by over 250 small to medium sized government agencies, municipalities, and universities
- Within three months, migrated from outsourced model to full in-house development. Built team of seven developers and two QA analysts
- Scaled architecture to handle over four million server requests per day
- 99% client retention rate, due to intuitiveness and reliability of software
- Integrated Stripe payment processing and spearheaded PCI Level 1 and SOC2 certification process
- Leveraged Azure DevOps Pipelines to implement continuous builds and streamlined release process
- Optimized and refactored core stored procedures and Controller logic.
- Expanded role in January 2022 to include T2 EDT product lines
- Manage twelve (12) developers, two (2) QA analysts and eight (8) off-shore resources.
- Oversaw timely delivery of application upgrade that was not traditionally released on time
- Received top Glint survey results across department leadership based on team retention and job satisfaction
Team Lead
ClinicalInk, Inc
03.2014 - 12.2016
- Technologies: C# .NET MVC5, JQuery, SQL Server 2015
- Lead team of three developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing web portal that facilitates sponsor engagement in clinical trial source data
- Time allocation is ~50% for both coding / management
- Responsible for estimating effort for user stories and delegating tasks for development sprint cycles using Agile methodology
- Optimized and reduced overall site response times by ~60% with SQL query tuning and lazy-loading techniques.
- Wrote complex stored procedures used in conjunction with SQL Agent Jobs to aggregate large amounts of source data
- Worked directly with QA department to facilitate validation / defect resolution process
Director of Product Development
InterviewStream.com
04.2009 - 03.2014
- Technologies: C# .NET 3.5 MVC 1-3, JQuery, Xamarin, MySQL, AWS
- Designed & built enterprise video (live and asynchronous) recruiting platform
- Considered to be industry leader
- Managed entire SDLC, including requirements gathering, architecture, development, testing and deployment
- Migrated from in-house media storage to cloud solution (Amazon Web Services EC2 / S3) - resulted in unlimited scalability and international capabilities
- System accommodated thousands of interviews daily throughout world
- Created redundant systems for web servers and MySQL database
- Used dynamic DNS for quick failover, and db replication to ensure no data loss
- Designed and coded InterviewStream GO iPad / Android app
- Used C# interfacing platform called Xamarin
- App communicates with main applications through web services
- Responsible for delegating work and defining specs for projects that were outsourced to 3rd-party vendor
- Integrated with several of largest Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) using those system’s APIs
- Responsible for writing all technical portions of client RFPs
- Client facing calls to ensure meeting requirements and satisfying customer needs
- Assisted during pitch meetings as technology representative to several Fortune 500 companies.
Web Developer
TapInko.com
10.2008 - 01.2009
- Responsible for design and implementation of startup website that provided online marketplace for traditional advertising
- Designed and implemented User Interface (UI) for majority of website
Systems Developer Specialist
Office of Info Technology, State of NJ
05.2007 - 10.2008
- Responsible for integration & maintenance of new state-wide web-based taxation system (PAMS) - used ORACLE Db functionality
- Wrote Windows application in Visual Studio that converted mainframe tax data to standard layout compatible with Oracle
Education
B.S - Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PASkills
- Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Scaling Teams
- CI/CD
- C# NET 6, MVC,
- Entity Framework 5,
- Azure and AWS
- SQL (complex stored procedures, schema creation)
- RESTful APIs
- Angular, Vue 3x, TypeScript
- JQuery
- iOS / Android (Xamarin)
- HTML 5, CSS
- Java
Timeline
Director of Engineering
GovOS
08.2023 - Current
Director of Engineering
T2 Systems
01.2017 - 08.2023
Team Lead
ClinicalInk, Inc
03.2014 - 12.2016
Director of Product Development
InterviewStream.com
04.2009 - 03.2014
Web Developer
TapInko.com
10.2008 - 01.2009
Systems Developer Specialist
Office of Info Technology, State of NJ
05.2007 - 10.2008
B.S - Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University