Michael Rath
Software Engineering Lead at Starbucks
Ephrata, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Rath is a seasoned software engineering lead with eight years in leadership roles and a 20+ year career focused on test automation, build systems, and tooling for large-scale retail platforms. Currently leading engineering at Starbucks, he has progressed from SDET roles to shaping CI/CD, build masters, and emulation systems that enable realistic end-to-end and performance testing across POS and labor systems. He pairs hands-on development of automation frameworks and SSIS integrations with mentoring and TFS/VSO administration, ensuring teams ship reliable, auditable code. Based in Ephrata, WA, Michael brings deep institutional knowledge of retail IT and a knack for creating tools that let others reproduce complex production scenarios—work that often happens behind the scenes but materially improves system resilience.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Moses Lake High SchoolN/A, Business Administration and Management, General & Computer Science, N/A, Business Administration and Management, General & Computer Science at Tacoma Community College
English
Github Skills (16)
dotnet10
mmo10
entity-framework-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core9
server9
dub4
code-injection3
qbcore-framework2
replay1
pcap1
viewer1
parser1
packet-parsing1
pcapng1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Splatterghast/serverslist
Apr 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
xAdvan/Crytide
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Asheron's Call Emulator replicating the Infiltration event, released in February 2005.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
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