Michael Daines
Sr. Backend Engineer at Adobe
Culver City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Daines is a senior backend engineer with over a decade of professional experience and a long personal history in software dating back to a master's-level education at UCLA. He currently builds resilient, maintainable server-side systems at Adobe after senior and principal engineering roles across healthcare, ad tech, and fintech startups and scale-ups. Michael has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and technical leadership—shaping architecture, reliability, and delivery at companies like Health Catalyst, healthfinch, Rapid7, and Rubicon Project. Based in Culver City, he combines enterprise-grade discipline with startup agility, bringing deep experience in production systems and cross-functional collaboration. An early adopter of pragmatic engineering practices, he often focuses on making complex distributed systems observable and easier to evolve over time.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Lancaster High SchoolCertificate in Applications Programming, Certificate in Applications Programming at University of California Los Angeles ExtensionMaster's, Master's at University of California, Los AngelesBachelor's, Bachelor's at University of Chicago
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
client-library10
api10
deprecated10
nexpose10
obsolete10
api-client10
ruby10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
rapid7/nexpose-client
Jul 2012 - Feb 2015
DEPRECATED: Rapid7 Nexpose API client library written in Ruby
Contributions:5 releases, 427 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 7 months
api-clientapinexposeclient-libraryruby
jtesta/nexpose-client
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
api-clientapinexposeclient-libraryruby
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