Michael Micucci
Software Engineering Manager at Paidy
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Micucci is a senior software engineering manager based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building and scaling financial technology products, cloud infrastructure, and developer teams. He has led teams from small core/API groups to a 40-engineer department, shipping Paidy’s first plastic card, major credit-card and merchant network integrations, and enterprise-grade incident and identity systems at PayPal scale. A hands-on polyglot, he writes production services in Rust, Go, Python, C++ and Scala and has deep experience designing high-availability APIs, microservices, and QA/DevOps practices. His background spans low-level, performance-sensitive systems (multi-threaded C++ engines) to modern Rust-based microservices and OpenID Connect authentication, giving him both architectural breadth and implementation depth. He combines pragmatic engineering leadership—hiring, stakeholder negotiation, and process design—with a history of building test frameworks and automation that reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary School (K-6) Teaching License, Education, Elementary School (K-6) Teaching License, Education at University of Colorado DenverMaster of Science (M.S.), Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Telecommunications Engineering at University of Colorado
English, Japanese
Github Skills (93)
rust-lang10
compiler10
rust10
standard-library10
modular9
clion9
intellij-plugin9
golang9
rust-language9
garbage-collection9
web-development9
intellij9
asynchronous9
docker9
rocket9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kitsuneninetails/midonet
May 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 7 months
virtualizationcloudsnetwork-virtualizationopenstack
kitsuneninetails/rust-effects
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 27 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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