Summary
Michael Duchemin is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience at Fidelity Investments, specializing in Salesforce platform development, Ruby on Rails, automation, and integrations that simplify complex business processes. A "fuzzy techie" with a liberal arts background in music, he learned to code pragmatically and now translates between business and technology to deliver pragmatic, user-focused solutions. He leads agile teams as a Salesforce technical lead, designing Apex REST APIs, integrating project management tools like Cloud Coach, and improving release pipelines across systems. Michael builds automation and NLP-enabled triage systems and has a track record of using test-driven development, Ansible, and custom tooling to reduce operational burden. His strengths in ideation, strategic thinking, and adaptability drive continuous improvement and mentoring, and he actively shares resources to help others learn to code. Based in North Carolina, he combines curiosity-driven problem solving with a bias for delivering measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music at University of New Hampshire
French