Michael Irizarry
Engineering Technical Lead at Northwestern Mutual
Punta Gorda, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Irizarry is an experienced software engineering leader with 15 years building and scaling web, mobile, and cloud platforms across media, healthcare, and financial services. As Assistant Director of Software Engineering at Northwestern Mutual he leads SDLC strategy, mentors engineering teams, and drives culture change while aligning delivery to product and business goals. He brings deep full-stack and DevOps fluency—React, Angular, Node/GraphQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/Azure—combined with hands-on architecture experience from earlier roles as a software architect and lead engineer. Michael has a track record of transforming teams through hiring, D&I initiatives, and adoption of best practices that produce frequent MVP-driven releases. Based in Punta Gorda, Florida, he pairs technical breadth with practical optimization experience, having modernized and optimized dozens of legacy and cloud-native applications. Beyond technical delivery, he’s known for blending strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering mentorship to raise team performance and retention.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad MetropolitanaComputer Science, Computer Science at Instituto de Banca y ComercioColegio El Buen Pastor
English, Spanish
Github Skills (74)
testing10
javascript10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
facebook10
rest9
api9
waf9
nginx9
nodejs9
database8
apollo-client8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
indieocean/Titanium-OAuth-Client
Dec 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:2 commits in 8 months
nbs-system/naxsi
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX
Contributions:3 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 10 months
nginxwafnaxsic
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