Summary
Michael Lacore is a Platform Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience building and operating on-prem and cloud infrastructure, currently focused on platform reliability at DaySmart. He has moved between startups and enterprise-like environments—from YC-backed Massdriver as a Cloud Solutions Architect to Azure-focused roles—bringing pragmatic DevOps and cloud-native patterns to production. Michael excels at scaling tooling and developer workflows so teams can move faster while reducing operational toil. Based in Raleigh, he pairs infrastructure depth (Azure, cloud architecture, on-prem) with a continuous improvement mindset and a track record of ramping platform capabilities quickly. An avid learner, he consistently bridges support, administration, and architecture roles, which gives him a rare operational empathy for both developers and operators.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer