Michael Peterson
Staff Software Engineer at LegalZoom
Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Peterson is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems and improving operational efficiency at scale. He has a strong background in Java and C#, has led architecture and refactor efforts at LegalZoom to enable customer self-service, and has hands-on experience with cloud-native tooling like AWS CDK, Kubernetes Kustomize, Argo CD, and Google Cloud migrations. His work spans BPMN/DMN workflow orchestration with Camunda, Kotlin Spring services, and large-scale job processing that handled millions of tasks daily. Comfortable in both feature delivery and production incident ownership, he also emphasizes knowledge transfer and team enablement through documentation and training. Based in the Spokane–Coeur d’Alene area, he pairs a solid Eastern Washington University computer science foundation with a practical knack for turning operational pain points into configurable, self-service solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Associate’s Degree at Spokane Falls Community CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Eastern Washington University
English
Github Skills (5)
mongodb7
connections7
database6
user-interface5
databases4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikebean233/finance_tool
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 66 PRs in 5 years 5 months
mikebean233/deploy_automation_test
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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