Summary
Michael Anthony is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating reliable infrastructure across startups and scale-ups, currently based in Denver. After training as a Cryptologic Linguist in the USAF and studying Korean, he pivoted into engineering and now enjoys solving systems and algorithmic "toy" problems in Python, Elixir, Rust, and Go while architecting production-grade platforms. His career traces a steady progression from hands-on support and operations roles at WP Engine through software engineering at HashiCorp to SRE roles at Vanilla and a stealth startup, giving him deep expertise in observability, incident response, and cloud-native tooling. He combines a language-trained analytical mindset with practical, infrastructure-first engineering instincts, often building tooling and prototypes purely for the joy of exploration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Korean Studies, Korean Studies at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
English