Michael Borchert
IT Director at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Borchert is an experienced technology executive and enterprise architect with 10+ years driving cloud strategy, platform engineering, and large-scale distributed systems in highly regulated environments. Currently an IT Director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, he leads engineering teams delivering public and internal platforms while shaping enterprise architecture, observability, and DevOps practices for the Ninth District. Previously a Principal Cloud Architect at AWS, he led complex cloud transformations across finance, telecom, logistics and Southeast Asia—authoring compliance-as-code tooling used broadly by customers. Known for building high-performing teams and pragmatic automation, he combines hands-on DevOps and back-end expertise (contributing to the popular AWS Config Rules Development Kit) with budget and roadmap ownership. His leadership centers on creating systems and culture that let engineers focus on building reliable, secure software at speed.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Management of Technology, Master's Degree, Management of Technology at Technological Leadership Institute, University of MinnesotaBA, Physics, BA, Physics at Carleton CollegeQuantum Computing, Computer Science, Quantum Computing, Computer Science at MIT xPRO
Github Skills (12)
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python10
aws-config10
devops9
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
json8
unit-test7
testing7
unit-testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-config-rdk
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
The AWS Config Rules Development Kit helps developers set up, author and test custom Config rules. It contains scripts to enable AWS Config, create a Config rule and test it with sample ConfigurationItems.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:74 commits, 143 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the AWS Config Rules Development Kit (RDK), implementing bi-modal Config Rule support. They debugged and improved deployment processes, updated argument parsing, and refined the Config Rule template. The user also addressed issues related to optional parameters and remediation actions, demonstrating expertise in both back-end functionality and deployment workflows.
development-kitruleaws-configset-upamazon-web-services
michaelborchert/aws-config-rdk
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
The AWS Config Rules Development Kit helps developers set up, author and test custom Config rules. It contains scripts to enable AWS Config, create a Config rule and test it with sample ConfigurationItems.
Contributions:6 PRs, 217 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 11 months
development-kitruleaws-configset-upconfig
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