Michael Clifford
Director Of System Operations
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Clifford is a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years building and operating high-traffic e-commerce and content platforms, currently serving as Director of System Operations at Evite. He progressed from hands-on PHP development to executive engineering roles, leading platform migrations to AWS, consolidation after M&A, and operationalizing product-driven teams. Michael combines deep infrastructure and application architecture expertise with a product sensibility—having shaped roadmaps and shipping core features for consumer apps, transactional notifications, and marketplace platforms. He keeps a practitioner’s edge through personal projects in AWS, Go, Elixir, and Docker, and is known for pragmatic efficiency improvements that reduce operational toil. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a CS background from Cal State Fullerton with a long track record of scaling systems and mentoring cross-functional engineering squads. An authentic "tech geek," he still enjoys prototyping infrastructure and backend services in his spare time when not chasing his kids around the playground.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Don Bosco Technical InstituteCalifornia State University, Fullerton
Github Skills (64)
ecosystem9
docker9
golang9
database9
go8
sql8
docker-cloud8
ruby-wrapper8
container8
notebook8
sql-client8
githubactions8
mysql8
postgresql8
json7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cliffom/sst-bff-demo
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
A demonstration of how to use SST to build and deploy a GraphQL endpoint with backing services written in Go.
Contributions:98 commits, 12 PRs, 82 pushes in 4 months
golangserverless-stackgraphql-endpointendpointgraphql
cliffom/gofly
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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