Summary
Michael Hamm is a Senior Software Engineer based in Orlando with nine years of experience building scalable backend and full-stack web systems. He has shipped production services at companies ranging from Apple and LinkedIn to growth-stage Wildflower Health, often optimizing performance and reliability under real-world load. His background spans Django and React front-ends to high-throughput Node/Express and PostgreSQL backends, alongside hands-on deployment with Docker, AWS EC2, Nginx, Redis, and monitoring tools like New Relic. Notably, he has driven architecture upgrades that produced 14x throughput improvements and led end-to-end website redesigns that multiplied traffic tenfold. A pragmatic tinkerer who “likes to dabble,” he combines rapid iteration with measurable impact on performance, availability, and user reach.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Hack Reactor