Summary
Michael Milord is a founder and senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating production systems across startups and enterprise teams from Philadelphia. He has led full-stack and DevOps efforts—shipping analytics dashboards, microservices, and blockchain-based decentralized applications—while founding The Hack Foundation to apply emerging tech to real-world problems. His background spans Django, Flask, React/Vue, Kubernetes, and RabbitMQ, and he has hands-on experience integrating third-party systems like QuickBooks and Slack to automate workflows. Michael combines product-focused engineering with entrepreneurial leadership, having launched companies, led developer teams and training bootcamps, and driven hires-to-production pipelines. An unusual thread through his career is blending biology education and clinical payments work with game-engine and real-time WebSocket systems, demonstrating a practical curiosity for diverse technical domains.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, General, Biology, General at Drexel University
JNROTC, JNROTC at Admiral Farragut Academy