Michael Van Baalen
Software Developer at CoverMyMeds
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Van Baalen is a pragmatic software developer with 10 years of experience building and testing full‑stack web applications, currently focused on internal tooling at CoverMyMeds. He moved from test engineering into hands‑on development, modernizing an outbound call system from Rails/Angular to Vue with Postgres and Redis, and brings a strong emphasis on reliability and developer ergonomics. His background in linguistics and past work on Watson’s language and analytics stacks give him a rare aptitude for testing complex ML and language features as well as traditional backend systems. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs disciplined automation and performance-minded thinking with a knack for designing software that makes work noticeably easier for end users.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
서강대학교 / Sogang UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer and Information Sciences, General at The Ohio State University
English, German, Korean
Github Skills (10)
game-development8
game-engine7
open-source6
godot4
hashids2
django2
storage1
python1
backend1
bunny1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mvanbaalen/honkbot
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:20 PRs, 28 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 5 months
mvanbaalen/KataRomanNumeral
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
numeralroman-numeralkata
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