Michael Heath
Lead Software Engineer at Vydia
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Heath is a Lead Software Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience modernizing and stabilizing large-scale full-stack systems, now focused on cloud-native architectures. He’s led cross-team modernization efforts at iCIMS—reducing outages to nearly zero, boosting test coverage on a 200K+ line codebase, and improving observability with tools like Zabbix and Sumo Logic. Comfortable across Java, PHP, Node.js and React, he pairs deep legacy-code remediation skills with delivery of modern front-end and microservice solutions. A pragmatic advocate for TDD, CI/CD, design patterns and SOLID principles, he consistently raises reliability and maintainability while mentoring engineers and shaping engineering culture. Based in the New York City metro area, he thrives on turning complex, fragile systems into scalable, testable platforms and is known for cross-team influence as much as technical depth.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at DeVry University
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
npm10
typescript10
lerna10
build-system10
package10
monorepo10
conventions8
minecraft7
html6
commit-message6
ruby-on-rails6
bourbon6
grammars6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MikeActually/jackbox-game-finder
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Provides information for games in Jackbox party packs
Contributions:42 commits, 21 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 11 months
minecraftpartygamespacksjackbox
MikeActually/jackbox-discord-app
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
App for Discord integration of randomizer
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 9 months
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