Michael Mcquade
Director Of Engineering at Softwoof
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Mcquade is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of full-stack and cloud experience, currently leading software and infrastructure development at Parallel Works to democratize HPC. He blends hands-on engineering—TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS/CDK—and systems design, having built monitoring, caching, and GraphQL/Hasura-backed platforms for large HPC clusters. Michael has moved between startups and enterprise (ConocoPhillips) building CDK libraries, live cluster dashboards, and production web apps that integrate payments and media workflows. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Houston and a BS in Computer Science, and is known for sharing types across front- and back-end codebases to speed development and reduce runtime errors. Based in Houston, he combines pragmatic infrastructure automation with product-focused UX work, from label-printers to multiplayer game prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of HoustonBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Tecnológico de MonterreyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.7, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.7 at Oklahoma State University
English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
5,016reputation
1.3mreached
87answers
12questions
graphql
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gatsby
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firebase-authentication
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log4j
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security
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visual-studio-code
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Github Skills (200)
hyper10
interactive-session10
theia10
google-maps10
react-icons10
browser10
google-login10
google-maps-javascript-api10
static-site-generator10
ssg10
nodejs10
mongodb10
vercel10
css10
user-interface10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
parallelworks/fsrouter
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Filesystem based router for express.js
Contributions:2 reviews, 54 commits, 5 PRs in 11 months
giraffesyo/School-Assignments
Jul 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:472 commits, 4 PRs, 414 pushes in 3 years 10 months
javapythonprograms
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