Summary
Michael Straughan is a dedicated full-stack software developer with 10 years of experience, currently building and maintaining mission-critical PHP applications and API gateways at Equifax while driving migrations between data centers, AWS, and GCP. He combines deep backend PHP expertise (including DSL-based business rules, PHPUnit/Behat testing, and zero-downtime releases) with JavaScript and Node-based automation and frontend work from earlier roles. Michael's background managing operations, IT across multiple international sites, and supervising large teams gives him rare operational and people-management instincts for production systems. Based in Las Vegas, he approaches development with relentless curiosity—experimenting across the stack from Electron to UI pixels—and a practical bias for shipping reliable, test-covered software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.45 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.45 GPA at University of Maryland University College
English, Korean