Michael Napolitano
Software Engineer at Chicago Trading Company
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Napolitano is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in infrastructure, distributed systems, and finance, currently building low-latency systems at Chicago Trading Company. He has designed and deployed services at Facebook that handled millions of requests per second, modernized image transcoding for Facebook & Instagram in modern C++, and implemented large-scale CDN URL routing and cache-purging tooling. Prior to that he prototyped edge computing, QUIC experimentation, and Kubernetes-based private cloud components at Cisco, often using Go and C++ for performance-critical systems. His background ranges from freelance full-stack work to early research roles, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both production reliability and exploratory prototyping. Based in Cambridge, MA, he blends deep systems engineering with a trader-facing mindset for highly reliable, high-throughput infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (59)
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fedora-coreos9
toolchain9
coreos9
clang9
sudoku9
fedora8
cisco8
virtio8
vms8
rebase8
bare-metal8
llvm8
libvirt7
firecracker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikeynap/githookTest
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:128 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
mikeynap/multiperf
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 88 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
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