Michael Quinn
Software Engineer at Liftoff, Inc.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Quinn is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and mobile applications, currently contributing to Liftoff, Inc. He brings deep full-stack expertise across Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), JavaScript, Objective-C, Clojure, Java and C++, and has shipped iPhone and Android apps as well as backend services. Michael has practical experience with test-driven development, scalable system architecture, CI/ops tooling (Git, Chef, Linux/OSX) and goal-directed user interaction design. His background spans startups and enterprise work—from Raytheon Solipsys to Merchant Link and Gloto—giving him a knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable systems. Trained in both computer science and economics at the University of Maryland, he combines technical rigor with product-minded thinking. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he pairs hands-on coding with a systems-level perspective that favors reliability and user-focused outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Economics, BS, Computer Science, Economics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (24)
ansible-module10
sarama9
kafka9
go9
apache-kafka9
cocoapods8
pingdom8
parsing8
webservice8
ansible7
cpp6
cassandra6
database5
amazon-dynamodb5
nosql4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikejquinn/rust-tetris
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
A console based implementation of Tetris written in Rust
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
rust
mikejquinn/emacs-config
Jun 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 9 months
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