Justin Michalicek
Senior Platform Architect
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Michalicek is a Senior Platform Architect with 14 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, Python/Django-driven platforms for messaging, content delivery, and mortgage processing. He combines hands-on development (Celery, Django Channels, AWS, Docker) with DevOps/SRE leadership to improve system stability and software quality across high-throughput SMS and mobile content systems. Justin has repeatedly led architecture and migrations—moving large content platforms to virtualized infrastructure and building scalable asynchronous pipelines for alerts and media delivery. He experiments with new languages and personal projects (Scala, Clojure, Android, HTML5 media players) and brings a pragmatic, polyglot mindset to solving tricky integration and delivery problems. Based in Richmond, VA, he balances deep backend expertise with a track record of operational ownership and developer tooling improvements.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at Reynolds Community CollegeNetworking CSC Computer networking Computer programming, Networking CSC Computer networking Computer programming at John Tyler Community CollegeUniversity of Iowa
English
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Github Skills (138)
cms10
python10
htmx10
docker-desktop10
django10
mypy10
bash-shell10
rest10
html10
docker-engine10
wagtail10
hateoas10
javascript9
python-development9
ghcr9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jmichalicek/authorizesauce-wsdl
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
hostingwsdl
jmichalicek/Beerfinder-Web
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:309 commits, 12 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 4 months
beerslocatenearbytypescriptshare
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