Michael Catanese
Software Engineer II at Constant Contact
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Catanese is a full-stack software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience and a front-end focus, currently building marketing and automation products at Constant Contact. He’s shipped features across startups and enterprises, from monolith Ruby on Rails apps and React monorepos to Elixir backends and Playwright/RSpec test suites, and has a knack for reducing technical debt—once removing 10,000 lines in a major refactor. Michael bridges product and engineering comfortably, having led cross-team initiatives like Try Before You Buy and expanded support for multi-user enterprise accounts. He’s presented at internal conferences, supported on-call incident response, and automated integration tests with dynamically generated accounts. Based in Boston, his background in psychology and a study-abroad stint in Amsterdam inform a collaborative, user-focused approach to building resilient, maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Study Abroad at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (34)
rundeck10
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java9
audit9
devops9
ansible9
automation9
sre9
orchestration8
scheduler8
nintendo8
terraform8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Jgorin/Blathers-Blabber
Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
A review site for all animals
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 11 months
review
mcat115/savage-chess
Apr 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:139 PRs, 133 pushes, 151 branches in 4 years 5 months
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