Summary
Michael H is a Distinguished Engineer with nine years of recent professional experience and a deep technical career that stretches back to self-taught C development in the mid-90s. He specializes at the intersection of networking, infrastructure, and software, having architected cloud-native platforms, high-availability networks, and automated deployment tooling for fast-growing companies like DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo. His hands-on background spans digital electronics and assembly to large-scale AWS services (Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS Aurora, Kinesis, Redshift) and networking technologies (MPLS, DWDM, Juniper, leaf-spine fabrics). Michael has repeatedly turned fragile MSP and legacy environments into scalable, automated platforms manageable by small teams, and he built in-house serverless tools for dynamic self-service environments and CI/CD. Not obvious from his title is a long history of research-driven problem solving—TCP congestion, long-fat networks, and custom WAN optimization—that informs his pragmatic approach to performance and reliability. Based in Peterborough, Ontario, he combines deep systems intuition with a continuous appetite for learning what’s next in cloud and network engineering.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Santa Barbara