Michael Hoak
Senior Manager at Optum
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hoak is a seasoned technology leader and senior manager with 11+ years building cloud-native systems and scaling engineering teams across startups and large healthcare organizations. He blends hands-on architecture experience (from Scala/Java backend systems and cloud engineering to Python-driven web platforms) with a proven track record of assembling teams that deliver product-driven solutions. Michael founded and led companies focused on data-driven property development and biotech analysis, and he has coached founders through strategy and pitching—helping teams collectively raise over $8M in seed funding. Based in Seattle, he excels at translating stakeholder needs into operational roadmaps and pragmatic technical designs that scale. An early engineer at high-growth consumer and infrastructure companies, he brings both startup grit and enterprise delivery discipline.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (3)
baduk9
golang7
go5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mhoak/clamshell
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:33 PRs, 115 pushes, 35 branches in 11 months
mhoak/hellocoral
Oct 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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