Michael Day

Software Engineer

Personal Profile

Adaptable software engineer with a talent for translating abstract concepts into usable language for both humans and machines. Committed to continuous learning and professional growth.

Work Experience

Software Engineer at Musco Lighting

August 2022 to Present

  • Worked in various roles on a multitude of projects, from software in the cloud to hardware at the edge, as a key engineer on an emerging technologies team
  • Completely redisigned and guided the development of the company's automated sports broadcast production application, leveraging Kubernetes at the edge to break existing hardware constraints while increasing both performance and availability
  • Established a Flux-backed EKS cluster hosting a centralized, scalable Grafana stack collecting logs and metrics from multiple fleets of edge applications, allowing teammates to set up alerting, identify issues, and diagnose root causes using aggregate data
  • Led the initiative to convert the team's deployment strategy from bare-metal scripts to automated, versioned containers.
  • Served as the team's first call for any Linux, Docker, networking, or heavy machinery problems

Software Engineer at Shazam

December 2019 to August 2022

  • Part of the core team responsible for the company's critical online transaction processing applications
  • Maintained a large, primarily C++ codebase supported by Python, Java, and Bash
  • Implemented new features, investigated and resolved defects, and supported all testing phases from unit through integration.
  • Validated and integrated new software packages into the production environment
  • Supported the team's 24/7 applications as part of an on-call rotation
  • Improved and expanded the team's internal documentation, replacing MS Word templates with interactive HTML/JavaScript documents

Key Skills

  • C++
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • FluxCD
  • Docker
  • Linux/Unix
  • AWS
  • SQL
  • TDD
  • Troubleshooting
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Firebreathing

Education

DMACC

Computer Information Systems - Summer 2018 to Spring 2020

3.93 GPA, with a focus on object-oriented programming
Assisted instructors with course development
Tutored students in C++, Java, and SQL