Michael Grosser
Principal Software Engineer at Toast
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Grosser is a Principal Software Engineer based in Chicago with two decades of hands-on experience designing and operating high-performance, maintainable systems using distributed architectures, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. He combines deep technical craft—shipping backend platforms and e-commerce systems—with people leadership, having scaled engineering teams and led platform and mobile backend organizations at Toast. His background includes enterprise cloud migrations and CI/CD modernization as an Enterprise Architect, plus product-focused leadership as VP of Engineering where he drove React and AWS-powered experiences for consumer-facing web products. Michael has a track record of delivering mission-critical e-commerce and real-estate data platforms for large clients and Fortune 100 firms, and he favors tight-knit teams that solve hard problems with pragmatic engineering. Known for moving between hands-on principal roles and managerial positions, he brings both strategic vision and the willingness to dive into code and architecture decisions. His uncommon combination of finance/CS education and long tenure in both consultancy and product companies gives him a practical lens on technical trade-offs and business impact.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Finance Computer Science, Bachelor's Finance Computer Science at Florida Gulf Coast University
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Github Skills (70)
terraform10
data-set10
graph10
aws10
artifactory9
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
declarative9
terraform-module9
infrastructure9
hcl9
devops9
infrastructure-as-code9
gitflow9
synchronization9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/oak9-plugin
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Repository for Jenkins plugin
Contributions:63 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
jenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugin
neighborhoods/CloudflareBackup
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
A tool for backing up Cloudflare Zones
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
cloudflarecloudflare-apizonesd1cloudflare-workers
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