Summary
Michael Yocca is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in Salesforce platform development, Advanced Lightning Components, Visualforce, Apex, and REST/SOAP integrations. He’s Platform Developer II certified and has progressed from hands-on Salesforce roles to senior engineering positions at HashiCorp and IBM following HashiCorp’s acquisition. Michael has led development teams at cloud-focused startups and built integrations and custom UI components that bridge CRM workflows with external systems. Based in Newport Beach, he combines a developer’s attention to detail with experience in product-facing roles, often translating business requirements into reusable platform solutions. His background in kinesiology suggests an analytical, systems-oriented mindset applied outside traditional CS pipelines. Pragmatic and integration-focused, he’s comfortable shipping enterprise-grade features across both legacy and modern cloud environments.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Arts (AA) at Saddleback College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Kinesiology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton