Michael Hallock
Staff Engineer at Paylocity
Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hallock is a Staff Engineer based in Ohio with two decades of hands-on experience designing and scaling web and SaaS systems, and a decade in senior engineering roles. He currently architects and operates a high-scale dynamic reporting platform serving 30k+ clients at Paylocity, having built real-time ETL pipelines and owned SSRS and legacy modernization efforts. Previously he led large eCommerce and government projects, driving rewrites, CI/CD adoption, caching strategies with Redis, and custom PIM and SPA frameworks. A practical polyglot, he pairs deep .NET/C# backend expertise with front-end contributions to notable open-source projects like hls.js (device pixel ratio handling), reflecting attention to cross-device UX nuances. He’s equally comfortable in architecture and hands-on coding, and his academic background in philosophy and psychology informs a user- and team-centered approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy & Psychology, Philosophy, Psychology, Philosophy & Psychology, Philosophy, Psychology at The University of Akron
English
Stackoverflow
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13questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
html10
video-streaming10
hlsl10
asp-net9
ecmascript9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
testing7
jscript7
nhibernate6
custom-error6
htmlhelpers6
asp-net-mvc6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
video-dev/hls.js
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on enhancing the HLS.js library by implementing changes related to device pixel ratio handling. They introduced options to ignore device pixel ratio in calculations and provided a more general solution for overriding device pixel ratio. Additionally, the user made modifications to the codebase, including tests and demo files, to support the changes and ensure proper functionality across various scenarios.
hlsjshls-streamplaybackhtml5stream
i8beef/I8Beef.Neato.Mqtt
May 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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