Garth Michel
Staff Software Engineer at Achievers
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGarth Michel is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of production experience building high-performance, testable, and scalable backend systems from PHP monoliths to cloud-native microservices. At Achievers he drove API tooling, led a shift to gRPC and GraphQL, and optimized Kubernetes/GCP service configurations to cut latency an order of magnitude while saving the company six figures on auth licensing. He combines hands-on systems design and prototyping (Python and Go async gRPC PoCs) with architecture-level coaching and framework ownership, helping feature teams adopt robust patterns and SLAs. Earlier roles show deep LAMP and telecom/IVR domain experience, including bespoke data pipelines and RPC systems, which gives him a practical edge when integrating legacy platforms into modern stacks. Colocated in Old Toronto, he gravitates toward setting trends — preferring to prototype faster, measurable improvements rather than follow established paths.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Btech, 3rd Year ND: IT, Btech, 3rd Year ND: IT at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
English
Github Skills (126)
python10
trading10
trading-bot10
cryptocurrency10
crypto10
cryptocurrencies10
telegram-bot10
bitcoin10
binance10
webapi10
algorithmic-trading10
pid9
rest9
phpunit9
swagger9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
synackSA/yii2-cache-data-provider
Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
Extension for Yii2 to have caching for ActiveDataProviders.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
railscachingrubycacheyii2
synackSA/casperjs-php
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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