Michael Decosta
Staff Software Engineer at Drift
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael 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.
12 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
Github Skills (17)
jenkins-api-plugin10
jenkins10
plugin9
bamboo9
java9
jenkins-plugin9
frontend6
testing6
authentication5
javascript5
authorization4
jwt4
sdk4
auth3
browser3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hpsniper/pathfinder_radoms
Feb 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 23 pushes in 3 years 2 months
mikedecosta/project_euler
Aug 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:33 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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