Michael Shappe
Lead Platform Engineer
Richfield, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Shappe is a veteran software engineer and technical leader with over three decades of hands-on experience and 14 years in senior roles driving platform and full-stack initiatives. Currently Lead Platform Engineer at Sonar Mental Health, he has a track record of modernizing systems across embedded C/C++ firmware, Python and Ruby backends, and JavaScript front-ends while improving operability, testing, and security. He excels at translating product needs into reliable, maintainable architectures—having led migrations to infrastructure-as-code, implemented disaster recovery on Kubernetes, and integrated complex hardware and utility interfaces for HVAC and energy products. Known as the person teammates turn to for thorny problems, he combines pragmatic engineering with a passion for best practices and continuous learning. An early adopter of test-driven development and observability, he consistently reduces field support load by making systems more observable and resilient.
14 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (132)
postgresql10
freetds10
ecosystem10
golang10
container10
convergence10
go10
conventions10
adapter10
forum10
discourse10
docker10
moby10
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kebab-case10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mshappe/ruby-the-gryphon
Apr 2015 - Feb 2019
...all gryphons are girls...
Contributions:40 PRs, 135 pushes, 40 branches in 3 years 10 months
girls
ConOnRails/ConOnRails
Oct 2011 - Feb 2023
An application for managing convention operations
Contributions:9 reviews, 1242 commits, 95 PRs in 11 years 5 months
ruby-on-railskebab-casezonesconvergenceconventions
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