Michael Wick
Founder & Principal Engineer at SceneWoven
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Wick is a founder and principal engineer with 15+ years of experience architecting high-performance, scalable systems across e-commerce, utilities, gaming, and enterprise finance. He combines a strong Microsoft .NET and C# enterprise background with modern TypeScript/JavaScript stacks—recently owning the full product lifecycle of Bugixa, a multi-tenant software maintenance marketplace that includes a programmatic Stripe Connect payment engine and decoupled Medusa/Next.js backend. Michael excels at pragmatic infrastructure: event-driven architectures, strict middleware for security and CORS, automated staging/production environments on AWS/Vercel, and rules-driven transaction engines that operate at millisecond scale. He has a track record of stepping into complex, domain-heavy codebases and delivering production-ready features quickly while mentoring teams and enforcing sound engineering practices. His open-source contributions touch probabilistic modeling tooling (factorie) indicating a comfort with advanced backend algorithms beyond typical application work. Based in Colorado Springs, he brings an owner’s mentality to architecture, shipping, and operational reliability.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityGLHS
Github Skills (8)
scala10
data-modeling10
graph10
factors10
probabilistic-programming10
statistical-models10
probabilistic-reasoning10
probabilistic-models10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
factorie/factorie
Feb 2011 - Feb 2014
FACTORIE is a toolkit for deployable probabilistic modeling, implemented as a software library in Scala. It provides its users with a succinct language for creating relational factor graphs, estimating parameters and performing inference.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily involve code modifications within the `factorie/factorie` repository, a toolkit for probabilistic modeling implemented in Scala. Their contributions focused on merging code changes, suggesting they are involved in integrating different features or branches of the project. The commits include changes to the `Sampler.scala` and `Template.scala` files, indicating work on sampling methods and template-based factor graph structures, core aspects of probabilistic modeling.
inferencescala
michaelwick/michaelwick.github.io
Mar 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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