Michael Lasevich
Distinguished Engineer at Blackhawk Network
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Lasevich is a Distinguished Engineer with over two decades delivering pragmatic, low-cost infrastructure and automation solutions for small to mid-size companies, currently shaping platform and ops strategy at Blackhawk Network. He combines deep hands-on skills across DevOps, systems and systems architecture with a proven track record building developer-controlled deployment pipelines and high-availability production systems at scale (MyFitnessPal supporting 80M users). Michael has founded and led multiple consultancies and product efforts—creating a Holistic Deployment Manager and guiding cloud-native, IoT, and payment-processing projects—demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and operational rigor. He prefers custom engineering over expensive off-the-shelf fixes, believing intimate system knowledge yields more reliable, tailored outcomes. Based in Oakland, he is comfortable spanning embedded C++ for industrial IoT through large AWS deployments, and often surfaces automation that eliminates roles and processes rather than adding complexity.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, BS in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Github Skills (200)
jenkins-plugin10
remote-execution10
infrastructure-management10
filter10
jenkins10
python10
ruby10
command-line-utility10
rewrite10
ide10
plugin10
logging10
jenkins-api-plugin10
cookiecutter10
infrastructure10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mlasevich/jenkins-pipeline-library-reference
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
A Reference For Testable Jenkins Pipeline Library
Contributions:11 reviews, 18 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year
jenkinspipeline-libraryjenkins-pipeline-librarypipelinejenkins-pipeline
mlasevich/shortcut-job-plugin
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
Jenkins Plugin to create Shortcut Items/Jobs
Contributions:20 PRs, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
jenkinsjenkins-pluginsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-pluginshortcut
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