Michael Cook
Software Engineer IV at Shift4 Payments
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cook is a pragmatic Software Engineer IV with 11+ years of experience building resilient web platforms, currently driving feature development and API work for Shift4 Payments' administration portal. He brings deep front-end and full-stack expertise from long tenures at Quotient and Yahoo!, where he migrated legacy systems to modern stacks, instituted testing and build practices, and integrated large-scale merchant and identity platforms. Known for shunning needless complexity, he combines a love of new technologies (ES6, React, GraphQL, node.js) with an old-school hardware curiosity—still tinkering with his Commodore 64—which fuels creative, practical solutions. A frequent mentor and presenter, Michael is the experienced, steady engineer teams turn to for guidance, documentation, and pragmatic process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Augsburg University
Github Skills (4)
hook8
docker-compose3
docker2
kubernetes1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mich-cook/grunt-atomify
Jul 2014 - Jun 2020
Hook atomify into your grunt process
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years
gruntbothook
mich-cook/just-over-five
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
5.25" Floppy Tracking Demo
Contributions:2 PRs, 63 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
floppy25-5tracking
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