Mike Desjardins
Computer Programmer at Anrok
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Desjardins is a seasoned software leader and hands-on engineer with over two decades of experience building and scaling teams and systems across startups and mid-sized companies from Portland, Maine. He combines deep backend expertise in Python, Ruby on Rails, Java and NodeJS with cloud-native architecture on AWS and practical product instincts—recently rebuilding high-throughput payment services that now process hundreds of millions monthly. Comfortable toggling between crafting code and running engineering orgs, he has repeatedly taken products from monoliths to microservices, introduced CI/CD and Scrum at scale, and mentored new managers. His breadth spans fintech, telecom, music, and restaurant tech, and he’s currently exploring Elixir and Flutter, reflecting a persistent curiosity to adopt languages and patterns that solve real operational pain.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English
Stackoverflow
450reputation
53kreached
22answers
2questions
Github Skills (107)
multiselect10
api-client10
contract10
linkedin-api10
react-component10
api10
twitter-client10
linkedin10
aggregator9
twitter9
sidekiq9
ruby9
forum9
discourse9
screen-reader8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mdesjardins/buzzbird
Mar 2009 - Sep 2015
Contributions:237 commits, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
twitter-clientdesktoptwitter
mdesjardins/Aquamacs
Feb 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 2 years
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