Michael Cacek
Principal Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cacek is a Principal Engineer based in Minneapolis with 11 years of experience building web and mobile platforms and leading engineering teams at companies ranging from consultancies to enterprise retail. He currently drives architecture and delivery at Target after serving as Director of Web and Mobile at Object Partners/Improving, where he combined client-facing sales support with mentorship and practice leadership. Michael blends hands-on front-end and API development (React, Jest, Hapi.js) with cloud-native infrastructure work—frequently using AWS serverless services, Terraform, and CI/CD to modernize legacy systems. As a consultant he has led end-to-end rewrites and coached teams in modern tooling and testing practices, which speaks to his strength in translating business needs into pragmatic technical roadmaps. Colleagues describe him as goal-oriented and passionate about building better products and better teams, with a knack for spotting opportunities to upskill organizations. His background in both systems administration and full-stack development gives him an uncommon operational perspective when designing scalable, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Buena Vista University
Github Skills (52)
javascript10
progressive10
vue10
frontend10
rewrite9
gulp9
angularjs-service9
fetch9
javascript-framework9
fetch-api9
react8
w3c8
api8
angularjs8
gulp-plugin8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prettygoodconferences/pgc-site
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
Pretty Good Conferences site template
Contributions:22 releases, 57 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 1 month
templatetemplate-siteconferences
mcacek/angular2-timesheet
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 73 pushes, 34 branches in 10 months
angular-2angulartimesheet
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