Michael Harreld
Principal Software Engineer at Turnitin
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Harreld is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience and seven years in senior leadership roles, currently leading cloud-native analytics and assessment platforms at Turnitin from Hanover, NH. He specializes in architecting and optimizing AWS serverless and data warehousing solutions—Java Lambdas, Redshift, S3, Step Functions and DynamoDB—while ensuring production reliability and performant ETL for customer-facing systems. Previously at IBM he led AI-driven supply-chain and distributed storage initiatives, blending natural-language understanding with GraphQL, Angular, and microservices to turn complex business queries into actionable analytics. His career began in high-assurance, transaction-heavy systems (payments, EDI, and managed file transfer), giving him deep expertise in secure, scalable integrations across enterprise platforms. Michael holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, a background that fuels a methodical, research-informed approach to practical system design. He pairs hands-on coding with squad leadership, often focusing on performance tuning and operational excellence that quietly drive measurable business outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (12)
sam9
aws9
lambda9
aws-sam8
docker8
serverless8
serverless-applications8
python8
api-gateway8
cli7
runtimes6
aws-lambda4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
harreld/Coursera_Capstone
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
aws/aws-lambda-builders
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Python library to compile, build & package AWS Lambda functions for several runtimes & framework
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
aws-lambdalambdapythonruntimes
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