Michael Thompson
Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer at Toppan Merrill
Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Thompson is a senior full stack engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable, maintainable systems and leading engineering teams from Ypsilanti, Michigan. He blends deep AWS and backend expertise with front-end and lab automation work—having built LIMS enhancements, Tecan Fluent integrations, and serverless Lambda architectures to streamline scientific workflows. As a principal engineer he founded an Architecture Working Group, created security-focused tools like a secret auditing library and a multi-repo compliance checker, and routinely mentors junior developers through pair programming and code reviews. Comfortable across Python/Django, React, Docker, and DevOps tooling, he has a track record of modernizing legacy platforms while establishing repeatable project foundations. Colleagues describe him as an energetic problem solver who prioritizes knowledge sharing and pragmatic design to keep teams productive and systems flexible for future change.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework Computer Science, Coursework Computer Science at Northwestern Michigan College
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Github Skills (194)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ActionScripted/elastic-kibana-postfix
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Kibana dashboards, visualizations and searches for Postfix
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
searchesdashboardskibanavisualizationsdashboard
ActionScripted/dev-machine
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Automate and maintain developer machine setup.
Contributions:10 PRs, 68 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 1 month
devops
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