Summary
Michael Irizarry is a Lead Developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining enterprise software, currently leading feature planning and delivery for category- and customer-specific solutions at The Hershey Company. He blends deep .NET/C# expertise with large-scale SQL Server optimization, event-driven integrations (Kafka), and mobile work using Xamarin, bringing both feature development and operational cost-awareness to projects. His background spans automation and testing, migration of legacy systems to multithreaded designs, and pragmatic tooling to eliminate repetitive work—skills honed across retail, marketing tech, and financial-software environments. Based in Ephrata, PA, he pairs an academic foundation from Drexel University with a practical focus on scalable, maintainable systems and a track record of pushing for best practices in agile teams.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Drexel University