Mike Larocca
Staff Software Engineer Applied AI at Flock Freight
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Larocca is a Staff Software Engineer focused on infrastructure and developer experience, based in San Diego with eight years in engineering roles spanning DevEx, SRE, and ML infra. He specializes in scaling CI/CD and local development workflows—most notably engineering a batch-merge process that doubled Flock Freight’s PR throughput while preserving quality gates and enabling the company to grow from 25 to 100 engineers. Comfortable across Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps, Ansible and cloud cost management, he blends hands-on platform work with budget stewardship for cloud, monitoring, and CI. His background ranges from full-stack feature development to database design and automated lab workflows, reflecting a practical, cross-disciplinary approach to solving operational bottlenecks. He brings a maker’s curiosity informed by early roles in bioinformatics and product-focused engineering, which helps him translate complex systems into reliable developer-facing tools.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Web Developer Full Stack Ruby on Rails with React, Web Developer Full Stack Ruby on Rails with React at LEARN AcademyBachelor's Degree Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor's Degree Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UC Santa BarbaraCertified Massage Therapist Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage, Certified Massage Therapist Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage at Santa Barbara Body Therapy InstituteHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Dana Hills High School
Github Skills (37)
private-repository9
deprecated9
jira8
tflint7
command-line-tool5
circleci5
github5
git5
testing4
hashicorp4
terraform4
git-hooks4
continuous-integration4
cli4
bdd3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michaellarocca90/hum_1618
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
MANATonous/travel_app
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 PRs, 27 pushes, 12 branches in 10 days
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