Summary
Michael Sy is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building scalable web applications and image-processing microservices, currently contributing to platform engineering at The Walt Disney Company. A former professional eSports player, he brings exceptional communication, teamwork, and live-production composure to high-pressure engineering environments. At Scholastic he helped power an API serving over 20 million images daily, improved observability and metrics for usage-driven decision making, and automated infrastructure with Terraform while upgrading platforms to Java 18. His technical breadth spans Java/Spring, Selenium test automation, Angular, Python, and AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, Route53), with hands-on experience in schema design and DevOps practices. He’s motivated to take ownership of projects, mentor peers, and translate product needs into reliable systems. An educator-turned-engineer, he has also driven learning outcomes as an instructor, demonstrating an aptitude for conveying complex concepts and improving team performance.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Platform by Per Scholas
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Hunter College
English, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog