Michael Pope

Michael Pope

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ABOUT ME
Wannabe entrepreneur curious about AI
Wannabe entrepreneur curious about AI

My focus is application developent using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Phoenix. I'm stronger on the back end, but I also do front end.

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)
Joined July 2020
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SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
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A YAML decoder for Elixir
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Stack Overflow
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EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Software Engineer
Booking.com
2023-11-01-Present

TL;DR -- backend developer

A two month contract to add authorization rules to database queries. The company had a short timeline...

TL;DR -- backend developer

A two month contract to add authorization rules to database queries. The company had a short timeline to do the work & was understaffed at the time.

Projects:

  • Senior engineer managing our MySQL portal that does migrations using Percona Toolkit
  • Automating review of firewall policies for compliance
  • Migrating our applications from using Jira on-prem to Jira cloud
Java
Perl
MySQL
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Java
Perl
MySQL
Elixir
AWS
Pythyon
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Senior Software Engineer
CarePort Health
2023-03-01-2023-04-01

TL;DR -- backend developer

A two month contract to add authorization rules to database queries. The company had a short timelin...

TL;DR -- backend developer

A two month contract to add authorization rules to database queries. The company had a short timeline to do the work & was understaffed at the time.

Projects:

  • Added authorizaiton to restrict access to healthcare data for which users should not have access
  • Optimizing Active Record queries
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Sidekiq
Active record
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Senior Software Engineer
Loomis Sayles
2022-07-01-2022-12-01

TL;DR -- Full stack developer

A six month contract to work on services that visualized financial data for mutual funds. The com...

TL;DR -- Full stack developer

A six month contract to work on services that visualized financial data for mutual funds. The company has traders that need to make trades and see data in a variety of ways. A lot of the work was cleaning up code written by developers who were new to Elixir & Phoenix.

Projects:

  • Built a metrics dashboard that graphed financial metrics using Highcharts & Phoenix
  • Cleaned up & refactored backend of finincial trading applicatoin to make it more maintainable
  • Mentored junior developers on coding best practices

Tech stack:

Elixir, Highcharts, Phoenix, React, PostgreSQL

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PostgreSQL
React
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Bash
PostgreSQL
React
Elixir
JavaScript
Phoenix
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