Michael Simmons
DevOps Node.js Engineer at Welocalize
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Simmons is a DevOps-focused Node.js engineer with 13 years of experience building API-first web applications, infrastructure, and scalable back-end systems. Based in Austin, he blends hands-on server and cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, Docker, CI/CD, Linux) with full-stack chops in Node.js, Laravel/Symfony, Angular/React and database design across MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB and Redis. He has led teams and shipped high-throughput platforms—from real-time scanning and auto-scaling Docker scanners to multi-million-request ad systems and white-label publishing products—while reducing bottlenecks and improving cache and deployment strategies. Comfortable from architecture to implementation, he also has a strong track record of translating business needs into measurable results (e.g., revenue and performance gains) and shipping reusable libraries and white‑label solutions. Notably, he combines enterprise DevOps discipline with founder mentality from multiple owner roles, making him as effective in startups as in larger engineering organizations.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (61)
starter-kit9
nodejs9
boilerplate9
typescript8
electron8
ads7
modal-windows7
linux6
page-title6
smtp6
slack-api6
server5
macos5
meta-tags5
rpm5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
empurium/phpizza
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:55 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
empurium/react-redux-crud
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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