Michael Bottone
Software Engineer at squareup
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Bottone is a Staff Software Engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems. He has driven architecture and platform expansions at Square—leading cross-org efforts that supported 100k+ QPS services, migration to cloud-native infrastructure, and initiatives targeting billions in GPV—while also mentoring engineers into tech-lead roles. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering and people management, he’s led incident response, enforced five‑nines SLAs, and shaped hiring decisions for hundreds of candidates. Now based in Atlanta and continuing to tackle hard systems problems at Toast, he brings deep expertise in identity/auth, resilience, and scaling microservices, plus a practical track record of reducing SEVs to near zero. A CS MS from the University of Georgia, he pairs pragmatic execution with a knack for rescuing at-risk projects and turning cross-team complexity into reliable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
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xcode6
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uisearchbar6
uitextfield6
iphone6
uitabbarcontroller6
database-management1
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remote-access1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mbottone/two_phase_commit
Nov 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 6 months
mbottone/timestamp_notes
Mar 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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