Michael Herndon
Principal Architect at Solovis
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolMichael Herndon is a Principal Architect and seasoned full-stack technologist with 12 years of experience building and securing SaaS platforms from early-stage to acquisition. As an early employee and former CISO at Solovis, he led cloud architecture, incident remediation, and a successful SOC 2 Type II program while managing substantial Azure spend and CI/CD pipelines. He combines hands-on coding and infrastructure expertise—having solved tough memory, socket, and TLS issues—with leadership that mentors teams and accelerates product delivery. His background spans consulting for government and enterprise clients, designing build/release systems, and automating complex workflows in multiple languages and environments. Known for gritty persistence (and a penchant for writing about technology and startups), he brings pragmatic security-first thinking to scalable architecture. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep operational experience across DevOps, security, and product engineering.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Communications w/specialization in Media Graphics, Bachelors of Science, Communications w/specialization in Media Graphics at Liberty University
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Github Skills (42)
lucene10
retrieval10
apache10
full-text-search10
csharp10
dotnet9
linux8
windows8
electron7
docker-engine7
typescript7
parsing7
command-line7
completions7
parser7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nerdymishka/BitsAndPieces
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:57 pushes, 3 branches, 3 issues in 2 years 10 months
nerdymishka/nerdymishka
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:85 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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