Michael Jester
Backend Engineer at Fetch
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Jester is a backend engineer with nine years of experience building data-driven, production-grade systems for government and private sectors. He combines strong Python/Django and Ruby/Rails expertise with full-stack sensibilities (Javascript/React) to deliver features like semantic search, experiment tracking, OCR pipelines, and Celery-based schedulers. At Ntrepid he led type-safety and linting migrations and built monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Grafana, demonstrating an emphasis on reliability and maintainability. Earlier roles in county administration and consulting show his ability to turn messy datasets and automation needs into cost-saving, revenue-generating scripts and models. Based in Falls Church, VA, he balances hands-on engineering with team-building and project management, often owning end-to-end solutions that blend ML tooling, backend APIs, and operational monitoring.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron SchoolCollege of Southern Maryland
English
Stackoverflow
27reputation
2kreached
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8questions
Github Skills (22)
sports-data8
espn7
html6
google-sheets6
php6
job-scheduling6
css6
jquery6
python6
google-apps-script6
javascript6
r6
mysql6
optimizer5
rails-api4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mjester93/ufc-data
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
mjester93/learn-co-sandbox
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:510 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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