Michael Hay
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hay is a software development engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, concurrent systems, currently working at Amazon from Edinburgh. He has a strong background in backend Java and distributed session management, proven during his time at SAS where he designed a high-performance shared session system for a large, concurrent server. His career spans finance and enterprise domains with hands-on roles at J.P. Morgan, NCR, and McGill, plus tutoring experience that underscores his ability to communicate complex concepts clearly. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he brings pragmatic engineering, thorough testing, and code-review discipline to production systems. An inquisitive problem-solver, he pairs academic training in Software Engineering from the University of Glasgow with a practical track record of turning tricky concurrency and integration challenges into reliable, documented solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Software Engineering, BSc Hons, Software Engineering at University of Glasgow
English, German
Github Skills (30)
notification10
js9
electron7
voice7
speech6
vue5
stream5
webpack5
ws5
balloon5
image5
speech-to-text5
tooling5
sepa4
api4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thefyrewire/triggleh
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 46 commits, 33 pushes in 2 years 3 months
thefyrewire/pokemon-sprites
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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