Michael Schem
System Development Engineer at Amazon
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Schem is a System Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure, and reliable systems across cloud, embedded, and security domains. At Amazon he delivered high-impact infrastructure like an AI MCP server adopted by 85% of Ring employees and observability libraries for services handling 60M+ connections. As a senior engineer and partner at StringKing he combined software, DevOps, and hardware control to boost sales, speed production, and cut response times—often by orders of magnitude. His background spans malware analysis and ElasticSearch-driven ML at Cyber adAPT, precision hardware and PCB design for agritech at Fogger Log, and B2B systems and patents at USAA. He holds an MS in Computer Science with a cybersecurity focus and frequently bridges security research with production engineering. Beyond typical SDE work, he has repeatedly turned research and custom hardware needs into deployed, automated pipelines that scale to millions of transactions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science Cybersecurity at Southern Methodist University
Stackoverflow
970reputation
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25answers
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Github Skills (200)
python10
django-framework10
http10
proxy10
websocket10
security10
django10
fiddler10
proxies10
debugging10
kubernetes10
jetbrains-ides10
go10
docker10
ssl10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
michaelschem/drf-flex-fields
Jul 2022 - Apr 2023
Dynamically set fields and expand nested resources in Django REST Framework serializers.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 months
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangoserializersrest-framework
michaelschem/django
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
frameworkdeadlinesweb-framework
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