Michael Macasek
Software Engineering Principal Architect at Salesforce
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Macasek is a Principal Architect with 16 years of experience leading large-scale software initiatives, currently shaping platform and product architecture at Salesforce in Greater Boston. His career spans senior technical leadership roles across enterprise and startup environments—from Principal Member of Technical Staff to Director-level responsibilities—demonstrating a knack for translating business goals into robust, scalable systems. He combines deep hands-on engineering with architectural vision, having climbed through engineering, lead, and architect roles at companies like Localytics, PayPal/WHERE, and MITRE. Michael holds a Master's in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BS from Wilkes University, and is known for steady progression into higher-impact technical leadership rather than frequent lateral moves. An attentive mentor and pragmatic problem-solver, he brings institutional knowledge of product delivery and platform evolution to complex, multi-team engineering organizations.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Wilkes University
Github Skills (10)
json-api9
api8
json7
rails6
ruby6
adapter3
vertica2
odbc2
activerecord2
elixir1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
macasek/macasek.github.com
Jul 2009 - Mar 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 1 push in 5 years 8 months
localytics/activerecord-odbc-adapter
Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
activerecordverticaodbcadapter
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