Summary
Michael Decosta is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient web and backend systems across startups and scale-ups in the Greater Boston area. He specializes in full-stack development with deep expertise in LAMP, JavaScript, Java, message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka), big data (Hadoop), and cloud platforms including GCP and AWS. At Drift he led critical infrastructure migrations and defined SLO-driven validation practices that improved organizational stability, while at HubSpot and Blue State Digital he delivered cost-saving storage and large-scale data synchronization solutions. Comfortable shipping across multiple repos and teams, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship—often becoming the go-to backend architect shortly after joining teams. A Northeastern-trained dual major in Computer Science and Information Science, he has a track record of translating messy integrations into maintainable APIs and pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Major, Computer Science and Infromation Science, Dual Major, Computer Science and Infromation Science at Northeastern University