Michael Kintzer
Retired at Delayed Karma, LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kintzer is a retired software technology professional with three decades of experience building high-performance, full-stack web applications and leading teams from individual contributor to management roles. He founded Delayed Karma, LLC and spent recent years as Principal Software Engineer at IGN, specializing in Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, and AWS to deliver scalable, low-latency services. Equally comfortable in architecture and hands-on coding, he emphasizes clean, maintainable, testable code and has deep experience integrating SQL, caching, search, and Map-Reduce patterns for high-scale systems. An active open-source participant with a long GitHub history, he brings pragmatic engineering shaped by roles across startups and larger media firms like Funny Or Die. Based in Seattle, he pairs an aerospace engineering background and an MBA with a practical knack for turning complex requirements into reliable, production-ready platforms. Notably, his career spans both early embedded/Java work and modern serverless/cloud-native stacks, giving him uncommon breadth across eras of software development.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business, MBA Business at Texas McCombs School of BusinessMSE Aerospace Engineering, MSE Aerospace Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBSAe Aerospace Engineering, BSAe Aerospace Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (71)
uploading9
multipart9
amazon9
background-service8
code-generation7
measurement-protocol7
aws-s37
orm-library7
nodejs7
amazon-s37
ruby6
swift6
database6
apollo6
sql6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rockrep/headrush-browser
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Visualizer for Headrush Pedalboard Rigs and Blocks
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 days
rigspedalboardvisualizervisualization
funnyordie/fodtv-cs
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:20 PRs, 32 pushes, 23 branches in 1 month
client-serverreactnodejsserver-app
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