Mike Hepfer
Contract Software Developer And Architect at Hepfer Technologies, LLC
Leander, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Hepfer is a contract software developer and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native systems, AI-infused solutions, and platform services. He blends developer-first pragmatism with advisory expertise in AI, data modeling, NLP, and LLM performance, often guiding customers from use-case discovery through implementation using IBM and open-source stacks. Technically fluent in Java, NodeJS, and Python, he pairs full-stack development with deep Linux, networking, virtualization, and Kubernetes skills to build reliable hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. His background spans roles from software developer to technical lead, DevOps/SRE, and cloud architect, with recent work designing Azure infrastructure via Terraform and operational tooling for SRE practices. Based in Leander, Texas, he brings a practical focus on improving model performance and production reliability that stems from long-term delivery and on-call experience. A Gulf War veteran, he combines disciplined team leadership with a penchant for shipping pragmatic, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management, Computer Information Systems at Park UniversityAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Austin Community College
French
Github Skills (94)
aspect-oriented-programming10
ipmi10
jar9
spring-data9
ip-range9
reserved9
exports8
api8
cups8
rest-api8
ibm-cloud8
hardware8
traits8
spring-boot8
adapter8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Dell-SMI/on-http
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 32 pushes, 14 tags in 6 months
michaelsteven/springboot-items-api
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
A CRUD archetype using Spring Boot and Spring Data in an imperative (non-reactive) way. It is also intended to demonstrate the use of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) for trace logging, database exception conversion, and annotation based event processing.
Contributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 3 months
aop-aspectjarchetype-javaaspect-oriented-programmingkubernetesopenshift
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