Summary
Michael Kramer is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over 16 years building scalable, enterprise web applications and a proven track record in architecture and platform engineering. He specializes in cloud-native infrastructure and back-end systems using Kubernetes, Docker, Go, PHP, MySQL, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, and has practical experience with Istio, Symfony, React, Angular, and Gin. Michael has led engineering efforts at Course Hero and now at Discord, founded an indie game studio (Siosphere LLC), and previously served as CTO building a secure 3-way messaging platform still used by federal and local law enforcement. Comfortable moving between hands-on implementation and high-level design, he brings deep operational knowledge of distributed systems, API ecosystems, and large-scale data models. Based in Lehi, Utah, he combines entrepreneurial initiative with long-term platform stewardship and a knack for turning complex requirements into reliable production services.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Granite Technical Institute