Summary
Michelle Dressler is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, production-ready systems across startups and large enterprises, currently helping mission-driven organizations at UpMetrics define and measure social impact. She excels at shipping zero-to-one products, bootstrapping CI/CD pipelines, and refactoring data-intensive queries to improve performance and observability. Her background at Qualcomm includes leading compliance and acquisition-related engineering efforts, building gRPC tooling and optimizing storage and scan strategies for scale. Comfortable across Python, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, multiple databases, and AWS serverless/Kubernetes stacks, she pairs pragmatic engineering with a civic-minded focus on impact-sector problems. An under-the-hood detail that surfaces in her work: she routinely turns ad-hoc analytics and unstructured user data into reliable ETL and aggregation pipelines that stakeholders can trust.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bioengineering, Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley
English