Summary
Michael Eatherly is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems, resilient deployment pipelines, and user-facing applications across languages like Go, Python, TypeScript, Elixir, and Rails. He has led teams and projects from embedded firmware (ESP-IDF/FreeRTOS) to cloud-native orchestration (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CDK), delivering products that include multi-axis sensor controllers, quantum-safe access systems, and a locker solution that saved a client over $30M. Comfortable owning the full lifecycle, he’s driven performance and reliability at scale—optimizing queries over hundreds of millions of records and maintaining 99.99% uptime for production services. A lifelong motorsports enthusiast, Michael brings that culture of rapid iteration and teamwork into engineering tradeoffs and system stabilization. He thrives in interdisciplinary environments that span hardware, firmware, and cloud, and enjoys mentoring teams on practical patterns like GraphQL middleware, observability, and automated CI/CD. Based in Hendersonville, Tennessee, he combines hands-on technical depth with a track record of turning complex, device-heavy requirements into deployable, maintainable products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Computer Information Systems, AAS, Computer Information Systems at Volunteer State Community College
BS, Computer Information Technology, BS, Computer Information Technology at Western Kentucky University