Michael Barany is a Principal Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling backend systems for fast-growing, startup-minded companies. He combines deep technical ownership—driving migrations off Heroku, standardizing structured logging, and reducing OpEx by hundreds of thousands annually—with strong leadership coaching Principal and Staff engineers at scale. Known for championing CI/CD and eliminating single points of failure, he has led platform teams that empower product engineers through shared libraries, tools and infrastructure automation like Terraform-powered repo management. Equally comfortable in strategy and code, he has acted as the “right hand” to engineering leadership while still committing code and running working groups on high-risk migrations. His career traces a pragmatic arc from systems and ops work to founding backend platform efforts, reflecting a rare blend of reliability-first engineering and startup agility.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Yeshiva University
Contributions:6 PRs, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 3 months
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