Michael Powell
Senior Software Development Manager at Pearson
Delaware, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Powell is a senior software development manager and founder with 15+ years of engineering experience and a decade focused on education and assessment technology. He has repeatedly led architecture and product efforts—architecting award-winning AI scoring and computer-adaptive testing solutions and winning a third-party competition that set a new market benchmark. As Senior Architect for Smarter Balanced and NCSC programs he guided multi-team technical governance and helped evolve industry standards such as CEDS, APIP, and SIF. He combines hands-on product development with business sensitivity to client drivers, enabling practical, operationally robust systems for high-stakes assessment programs. Based in Delaware, he runs his own engineering services company while directing development at Pearson, demonstrating rare breadth from startup founding to enterprise delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who turns complex assessment problems into enduring intellectual property.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
nunit10
protoc10
javascript-framework10
svg10
visual-studio10
3d10
dto10
cpp10
modular10
dkim10
mapper10
json10
net-library10
documentdb10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mwpowellhtx/NConsole.Options
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
mwpowellhtx/BumpAssemblyVersions
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
A flexible way of Bumping Assembly Versions with a rich set of instructions how to do so.
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 4 PRs in 5 months
bumpinginstructionsto-doassemblyflexible
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