Summary
Michael Ploughman is a full-stack Software Engineer II based in Denver with 8 years of professional experience and 6+ years focused on travel and aviation domains. He ships end-to-end web applications using React, Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL, and has a track record of building developer-facing tools and APIs from Thinkful projects to production work at Blind Spot and Vision-Box. Michael pairs hands-on coding with operational rigor—his prior optician lab management background shows attention to detail, process improvement, and cost savings (up to 8% revenue) that translate into low-defect software delivery. He enjoys tackling hard problems and continuous learning, demonstrated by coursework through Thinkful, freeCodeCamp, and Udemy and by building utilities like an npm-saving CLI and recipe and brewery apps. Comfortable across client, API, and CLI layers, he brings practical product empathy from customer-facing roles into scalable engineering solutions.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Battle Mountain
Web Developer Bootcamp Web Development, Web Developer Bootcamp Web Development at Udemy.com
Resposive Web Design Certificate Web Development, Resposive Web Design Certificate Web Development at freeCodeCamp
Engineering Nights and Weekends Computer Software Engineering, Engineering Nights and Weekends Computer Software Engineering at Thinkful