Michael Barker
Senior Software Engineer at Cequence Security
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Barker is a Senior Software Engineer in Cincinnati with over 10 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, scalable systems across retail, eCommerce, and security domains. He has a strong track record as a hands-on technical lead—building teams, introducing Kotlin at scale, and decomposing monoliths into microservices to dramatically improve performance and deployability. At Kroger he drove substantial latency and resource gains through better async patterns, timeouts, and automation, and now applies that operational rigor at Cequence Security. Comfortable across the full stack (Java, Spring, JavaScript) and infrastructure automation, he blends pragmatic engineering with mentorship and knowledge sharing. A practical problem-solver, he often focuses on developer productivity and observability so teams can move faster without sacrificing quality.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Miami University
English
Github Skills (190)
data-stream10
messaging10
testing10
resilience4j10
fault-tolerance10
microservices10
cloud-native10
slf4j10
data-streams10
monitoring10
cascading10
kubernetes-operator10
kafka-streams10
uid10
isolate10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
michael-barker/strimzi-kafka-operator
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Apache Kafka running on Kubernetes
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkaapacheapache-flinkkubernetes
michael-barker/micrometer
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
facadeapplication-metricsgrafanaprometheusmonitoring-tools
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