Summary
Michael Usner is a Principal Cloud Developer with over 11 years of enterprise software experience and a two-decade foundation in embedded and systems engineering. He architects and builds cloud-native compute management and lifecycle automation at HPE, working across microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, and observability stacks while retaining deep hands-on fluency in Python, Go, C/C++, and numerous testing frameworks. His career spans Intel validation and defense visualization to SAN and storage platforms, giving him rare cross-domain expertise from low-level firmware and assembly to scalable distributed services. Based in Texas, he blends systems-level rigor with modern CI/CD practices and a penchant for pragmatic automation that speeds customer digital transformation.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of New Mexico