Summary
Michael Mcdonald is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building customer-facing web platforms and the infrastructure that powers them, currently contributing at CVS Health from Minneapolis. He has led frontend and analytics efforts at major retailers—Target and Best Buy—shaping checkout, membership, profile, and services experiences using modern JavaScript stacks (React/Next.js, TypeScript) and legacy architectures when needed. Michael combines hands-on implementation with mentoring, code quality initiatives, and tooling improvements, having scoped projects, refactored large codebases, and introduced testing and build efficiencies. His background in web analytics and a dual academic foundation in computer science and environmental studies gives him a data-informed, systems-thinking approach to product engineering. Colleagues rely on him to bridge cross-team dependencies and deliver robust, production-grade interfaces that drive customer engagement.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
B.A., Environmental Studies, Environmental Engineering, B.A., Environmental Studies, Environmental Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Spanish