Summary
Mike Harty is an artificial intelligence consultant and staff-level software engineer with 12+ years building high-traffic, compute-intensive services on AWS and GCP, specializing in event-driven microservices, multi-region resiliency, and cost/latency optimization. He designs and implements end-to-end systems—from AI intent classification and routing to concurrent real-time audio/video model pipelines that run both at the edge and in the cloud. Mike has led large-scale video initiatives (including re-encoding catalogs of 1M+ assets), built live streaming and transcoding platforms used by millions, and holds a patent for a fault-tolerant live streaming system for mission-critical media. Equally comfortable in Go, Python, TypeScript/Node, Ruby, Java, and Rust, he pairs hands-on coding with system design to ship observable, reliable production services. Based in Santa Monica, he thrives partnering with product and infrastructure teams to turn complex distributed problems into pragmatic, scalable solutions. An uncommon strength is his blend of media-scale operational experience and recent AI pipeline design work, bridging legacy streaming systems with modern ML-driven architectures.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Boston