Michael Lalonde
Director Product Development Engineering at MachineQ, a Comcast Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Lalonde is a director-level product development engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency systems from conception to production and deprecation. Based in Philadelphia, he blends hands-on coding with people leadership, instituting practices like mandatory peer review, backwards compatibility policies, and DevOps culture to improve deployment cadence and operational reliability. He has driven measurable platform performance gains that lowered cloud costs and increased throughput, while also managing staffing and operational budgets. His technical background spans Java, Go, Erlang, and Clojure, and he frequently stays involved in code even while leading teams. Colleagues know him for coaching engineers to own their work and for introducing new languages and practices to spark innovation. An engineer-manager who balances practical cost/latency trade-offs with long-term platform health, he intentionally preserves deployment confidence through compatibility-first design.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
go-language10
protobuf9
grpc9
golang9
rpc9
microservices9
proto9
go8
array-map8
trie7
hash7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lalonde/emacs.d
Jun 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
lalonde/hamt
Sep 2012 - May 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 8 months
golangarrayhashtriearray-map
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