Summary
Michael Shea is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable back-end microservices and data engineering solutions, currently contributing to Azure Identity at Microsoft. He has a strong track record designing and shipping production Java Spring Boot services, REST and GraphQL APIs, and data pipelines that serve tens of thousands of active users. His background includes hands-on work across AWS and Azure, SQL and NoSQL schema design (MySQL, Cassandra, Aurora), and end-to-end testing and CI/CD practices. Earlier roles at LendingClub and Amazon show experience creating customer-facing financial and advertising tooling, including version control tooling and Elasticsearch integrations. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends solid academic foundations in computer science from UCLA with practical experience on large cloud platforms. Outside core work, he has repeatedly tackled cross-stack problems—from DFS algorithms for content model comparison to serverless Lambda data transfers—highlighting a bent for pragmatic engineering solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles