Michael Brinker
Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brinker is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in data platform work with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications and backend services across Java, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and Ruby. Based in Detroit, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals—TDD, Continuous Delivery, and Agile practices—with practical infrastructure experience from servers to CI pipelines, bringing an operations-minded perspective to development. His career spans fintech and nonprofit domains, including multiple roles at Comerica and recent platform work at Cross River and Biblica, where he blended solutions architecture with implementation. Known for enjoying hard problems and a long-standing passion for the internet, he also has a background in technical documentation, user support, and marketing-driven web projects that inform a user-focused approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems at Oakland UniversityBachelor, Business Administration; Business Management, Bachelor, Business Administration; Business Management at Rochester College
Github Skills (86)
morphology9
windows8
syntax-highlighting8
desktop8
hebrew8
image8
image-processing7
annotations7
firebase7
rack7
multithreading7
color-picker7
ember-cli-addon7
jpeg7
nodejs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
themikejr/technews.bible
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 98 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
themikejr/neo-mikepedia
Feb 2023 - May 2023
Content for mikepedia
Contributions:233 PRs, 591 pushes, 232 branches in 3 months
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