Summary
Michael Albanese is a Senior Software Engineer in San Jose with 11 years of professional experience building robust, high-performance systems spanning embedded networking, backend analytics, and polished iOS applications. He combines low-level C/C++ systems work—designing failover, state replication, and in-service upgrades for routers—with client-side expertise in Objective-C and Core Animation to deliver responsive, animation-rich UIs like a music-notation iPad app. Michael has a track record of turning complex domains into clean architectures: from a MADCAP server and custom handheld sync protocol and SDK to a layered object hierarchy and Core Data rendering separation for mobile. He’s one of the original Palm team contributors (co-inventor on a Palm patent) and has experience building compilers, daemons, and animation engines, showing an unusual breadth across tools and runtime levels. Equally comfortable prototyping user studies and scripting seed databases as he is implementing multi-processor coordination, he favors reusable designs that hide protocol complexity behind simple interfaces. His work reflects a practical curiosity for both high-performance infrastructure and delightful, resilient user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer