Summary
Michael Johnson is a Cloud Operations Architect with 18 years of hands-on experience designing and operating heterogeneous, secure SaaS platforms across VM and cloud-native environments. He has led SRE-influenced practices, built company-wide global monitoring and alerting solutions, and driven RBAC and disaster recovery designs that support regulatory compliance in healthcare-focused products. Previously he managed CI/CD pipelines, migrations to Microsoft Azure, and security tooling like SonarQube to sustain HIPAA-aligned operations for telemedicine and virtual trial platforms. Comfortable in networking, VOIP, and web coding, he blends deep systems administration instincts with architecture-level thinking to optimize server resources and network layouts. Michael also contributes to open-source governance as a long-serving board member of the Simple Machines project, reflecting a steady commitment to community-driven software. He seeks work that matters and thrives on challenging problems where he can design pragmatic, auditable solutions.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Literature, Bachelor of Arts Literature at Claremont McKenna College