Summary
Michael Galey is a Lead Systems Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale web and mobile platforms, combining server-side expertise in Linux, databases, Java and PHP with modern JavaScript and Node ecosystems. He has led engineering teams, architected AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, and migrated monolithic projects to Docker-based deployments while building developer tooling in Python and lightweight Electron UIs. His background spans CMS-driven enterprise projects (CQ5/Adobe) to high-volume data platforms using Mongo, MySQL and Elasticsearch, including near-terabyte search and segmentation work. Michael is comfortable across the full stack—CI/CD, backups, autoscaling, monitoring and low-downtime releases—and has repeatedly translated complex requirements into practical, maintainable systems. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on coding, ops and people leadership, and a continual appetite for exploring new frameworks and languages. A less obvious strength is his repeated ability to pair infrastructure automation with small developer-facing tools that significantly speed debugging and deployments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
English