Summary
Michael Siegfried is a Lead Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building and improving large-scale Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL systems, currently driving backend efforts at Loamy. He has a history of advancing engineering standards and developer productivity—mentoring teams, teaching refactoring classes, and championing modern tooling during his tenure as a Staff Software Engineer at Procore. Michael excels at contextualizing changes within monolithic codebases to boost performance and maintainability, and he prioritizes clear, testable code to speed delivery and reduce friction. Based in Commerce City, Colorado, he pairs hands-on implementation with leadership in code review and technical education, quietly influencing team culture as much as system architecture.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara