Summary
Michael Kerley is a senior software development engineer with 20 years of experience building mobile and web applications, currently focused on Workday’s iOS and iPadOS mobile app. He brings deep cross-platform expertise—iOS/macOS, Android, Linux—plus a strong full-stack background in Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React and MongoDB. Michael has led technical efforts at SonicWall redesigning VPN networking cores, modernizing UIs, and instituting CI/CD and testing best practices while mentoring engineers adopting new stacks. As an independent developer since the late 1990s he has a long history of shipping mobile games and interactive web tools, showing a pragmatic product mindset alongside systems-level skills. He’s comfortable moving between low-level C/C++ networking work and high-level SPA architectures, and has repeatedly delivered secure remote-access clients across desktop and mobile platforms. Based in Castro Valley, CA, he combines veteran engineering judgment with hands-on implementation across the full delivery stack.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University