Michael Lavrisha
Principal Software Consultant at Manalive Software
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Lavrisha is a Principal Software Consultant with 17 years of hands-on experience building 23 products for 17 organizations, currently leading delivery and architecture at Manalive Software from Denver. He combines full‑stack expertise in Java, Spring, Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Typescript and React with a disciplined XP practice—pair programming, TDD, continuous delivery—that he has taught client teams across startups, banks, healthcare and DoD projects. At VMware Tanzu he helped compress DoD release timelines from years to months while meeting strict security and compliance requirements, and regularly enabled client engineers to sustain improvements after rollout. Michael is comfortable both shaping high-level architecture and digging into backend refactors (e.g., improving notification and mailer logic in an open Rails helpdesk repo). He volunteers building the Chesterton Digital Library, reflecting a long-term commitment to purposeful, community-focused engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who prioritizes repeatable, fast delivery without sacrificing maintainability.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Gonzaga University
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Github Skills (23)
rails10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
integrations9
validation9
emailjs9
e-mail9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
testing7
unit-testing7
unit-test7
html6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ivaldi/brimir
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the backend functionality of the email helpdesk application built with Ruby on Rails. Their contributions included refactoring code to separate concerns, specifically moving notification logic from controllers to models. The user also enhanced the application by implementing status filtering for tickets and integrating an assignee filter. Furthermore, the user worked on refining the application's mailer configuration by utilizing a block-based approach and by managing attributes post-delivery of messages.
ruby-on-railsrailsemailrubyfoundation
vrish88/big-door
Jul 2010 - Sep 2010
Contributions:33 commits in 1 month
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