Michael Carey
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Carey is a seasoned Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 18+ years of experience building full-stack, user-focused platforms and leading high-performance teams from startup founding stages to enterprise delivery. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby on Rails, React and TypeScript with infrastructure and DevOps expertise (AWS, Terraform, Docker) to ship scalable, secure systems like licensing-as-a-service, image annotation pipelines, and health-focused apps. As a founding engineer he drove SOC2 compliance and faster time-to-value through AI-enabled integrations, and as an engineering leader he cut video processing costs by 40% while improving reliability. Michael excels at translating product needs into pragmatic architectures and has repeatedly modernized legacy workflows—from RFID checkout hacks to advanced image fingerprinting and geospatial mapping. Based in Denver, he thrives in environments that demand both technical depth and strategic leadership, often tackling non-obvious system bottlenecks early to amplify team velocity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Ohio University
Github Skills (166)
pandadoc10
javascript10
redux-orm10
image-resizing10
graph10
diagram10
react-library10
flowchart10
react10
image-optimization9
redux-store9
react-flow9
frontend9
typescript9
svelte9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CatchRelease/crorm
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Catch&Release React/Redux ORM
Contributions:59 commits, 16 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 4 months
jsonapireactredux-storereact-reduximmutable
mikecx/mikecx.github.io
Mar 2015 - Feb 2020
My personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
reactnextjs
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