Michael Read
Expert at Tensor7
Dana Point, California, United States
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SeniorMichael Read is an expert architect and systems engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, reactive systems optimized for resilience, scalability, and responsiveness. He has led engineering teams as CTO and Chief Architect and guided large enterprises through monolith-to-microservices transformations using Scala, Akka, Kafka, Kubernetes, and related streaming and persistence technologies. At Lightbend/Akka he drove high-impact telemetry and partitioning solutions—one PoC increased pipeline throughput by 400%—and mentored client engineering champions across finance, healthcare, and media. Now at Tensor7 he applies distributed-systems rigor to agentic AI, focusing on safe, cost-effective LLM/SLM orchestration and governance to prevent hallucinations and data leakage. A lifelong practitioner who still codes, he blends technical leadership with Deming-inspired process thinking to measurably improve product quality and team performance. Based in Dana Point, CA, he combines deep platform expertise with a pragmatic knack for turning complex architectures into production-ready, observable systems.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (63)
monitoring10
poc10
docker10
akka-persistence10
reactive10
akka-cluster10
akka10
application-state10
rest-client10
k8s10
clustering10
streaming10
lagom9
circe9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michael-read/akka-typed-distributed-state-blog
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Companion repo for Lightbend blog post - How To Distribute Application State with Akka Cluster
Contributions:129 commits, 28 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 4 months
akka-clusterapplication-statelightbendpoclightbend-console
michael-read/sensor-data-java-proto-grpc
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Cloudflow - Sensor Data (Java) example with end to end Protobuf
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 months
javaprotobuf
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