Summary
Michael Shipway is a veteran Senior Software Engineer with over three decades of experience and a 12-year recent track record delivering secure, high‑volume full‑stack systems across government, academia, and enterprise. He excels in object‑oriented development (Java, PHP), SQL database design and performance tuning, and modern web UIs, with recent focus on cybersecurity and large data storage/analysis. Michael has moved teams toward engineering best practices—introducing TDD, CI/CD, automated testing, and benchmarking—to reduce defects and improve performance at organizations like the U.S. Coast Guard, Cisco, and Johns Hopkins. He brings practical experience building and optimizing mission‑critical systems (document management, intrusion detection tooling, and a 300TB astronomical data pipeline) and holds a Department of Treasury Public Trust clearance. Based in Maryland, he pairs hands‑on coding with systems thinking and a knack for translating complex technical needs into reliable, user‑friendly interfaces for nontechnical stakeholders.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associate of Science - AS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at SUNY Broome Community College