Summary
Michael Mihalchik is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of professional engineering experience and a background in leadership and operations that informs pragmatic, people-centered technical decisions. He has transitioned from restaurant management—where he drove measurable improvements in cost control, team retention, and training—into cloud and full-stack roles, recently focusing on cloud engineering and AWS-hosted backends. Michael built an Interview Bot combining React frontends with Face API, speech recognition, Flask, SQLAlchemy, and custom library repackaging, demonstrating an ability to integrate diverse technologies end-to-end. He enjoys solving fast-paced, user-focused problems and bringing teams together to deliver cohesive products. Based in State College, PA and trained at App Academy, he is motivated by using software to make tangible improvements in people’s lives and learning collaboratively. Colleagues can expect a hands-on engineer who balances technical curiosity with operational discipline.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Did not complete Chemical Engineering, Did not complete Chemical Engineering at Hofstra University
Software engineering, Software engineering at App Academy