Michael Upton
Platform Engineering
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Upton is a seasoned platform engineer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining reliable infrastructure across retail and automotive environments. Currently at Little Caesars, he applies deep Linux, DNS, and virtualization (Xen/KVM) expertise honed during roles at Ford and Liquid Web to keep production systems resilient and performant. His background blends hands-on systems administration, automated testing with Ruby/watir and RSpec, and operational troubleshooting of complex LAMP and hypervisor stacks. Michael’s career shows a steady shift from customer-facing sysadmin work to platform-focused engineering, bringing practical incident experience to larger-scale platform operations. Based in Michigan, he pairs an applied-science foundation in computer networks with a pragmatic, test-driven approach to platform reliability that often surfaces tricky edge-case failures before customers do.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Computer Network Systems, Associate of Applied Science, Computer Network Systems at ITT Technical Institute Swartz
Github Skills (2)
dns2
cucumber1
Github contributions (5)
mupcakes/csharp-stormondemand
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push in 4 months
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