Summary
Michael Pieper is a Site Reliability Engineer with eight years of focused experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading reliability efforts across startups and enterprises from Healthgrades to FullStory. He combines deep expertise in network and concurrent programming with hands-on skills in Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, Golang and Python to design scalable application architectures and automated operations. Michael has a strong background in observability and cost management using Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, and has driven platform work involving Kafka, Elasticsearch, and serverless patterns. Early career work on DOCSIS gateway routing at Cisco/Technicolor honed his low-level networking instincts, which he now applies to complex distributed systems. Based in Atlanta and guided by a pragmatic “no code is good code” philosophy, he favors minimal, reliable solutions that reduce operational surface area while enabling fast iteration.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS, Computer Science, IT Management, BSCS, Computer Science, IT Management at Georgia Institute of Technology