Michael Couillard
Engineering Manager at VIP (Vermont Information Processing)
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Couillard is an experienced engineering manager with 14 years at VIP, where he has grown from the company's first web developer into a leader who architects cross-team B2B web and platform ecosystems. He combines hands-on web development (active since 2002) with DevOps and SecOps craftsmanship—building and maintaining toolchains using Docker, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Graylog, Jenkins, Ansible and more. Michael coaches and mentors 15–20 direct reports across full-stack, backend, UX, and business analysis roles while driving resilient, observable systems for regulated verticals. He has a track record of standing up new branches and modernizing monitoring and deployment pipelines, translating product needs into durable operational practice. Based in Pennsylvania and holding an IT degree from RIT, he brings steady technical leadership and a practical bias for shipping reliable, auditable software at scale.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (140)
uploading10
authentication10
file-upload10
excel10
xls10
php-library10
spreadsheet10
ftp10
file-sharing10
screeps10
screen-capture10
android-tv10
gnumeric10
screencast10
avalonia10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mcouillard/OpenID-Connect-PHP
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
Minimalist OpenID Connect client
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
openidoidcminimalistoauth2openid-connect-client
vtinfo/PhpSpreadsheet
May 2020 - Feb 2025
forked for a temporary workaround related to splitCell and spaces instead of commas
Contributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 13 PRs in 4 years 10 months
spacesworkaround
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