Michael Garski
Senior Director Of Architecture And Backend Platform
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Garski is a senior technology leader with over two decades of hands-on application design and development and 25 years of people leadership, now leading architecture and backend platform at Universal Audio. He is a proven expert in search and information retrieval, having architected high-capacity Solr/Lucene systems at MySpace that served billions of documents and tens of millions of daily queries with sub-50ms response times. Michael has driven cloud-native, nearly serverless platform transformations—most recently at Fender—balancing cost efficiency, scalability, and observability while mentoring teams across API, data, QA, and DevOps disciplines. His background spans Java, Solr, Lucene.Net, C#, .NET, and Python, and includes committing patches to Lucene ecosystems and contributing to open-source search tooling. Known for pragmatic performance tuning and multi-threaded systems design, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with recruiting and organizational strategy to build resilient platform teams. Based in Los Angeles, he brings unusual breadth—from naval reactor lab work to enterprise search architecture—that informs his disciplined approach to reliability and operations.
14 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
N/A Computer Science, N/A Computer Science at California State University-Dominguez Hills
Github Skills (34)
lambda-functions8
lambda7
aws-lambda7
serverless6
backbone6
aws6
debugging6
serverless-functions5
golang5
monitoring4
graph4
logging4
react4
graphene3
dashboard3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fenderdigital/engineering-resources
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
fenderdigital/jsonapi
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
jsonapipayloadserializationserializerjson
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