Mike Makuch
Principal Engineer at SafeDefend, LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike Makuch is a versatile senior software engineer and architect with 11+ years of freelance and principal-level experience building enterprise and consumer systems across IoT, control systems, payments, SMS, CMS, and financial analytics. He blends hands-on development, systems engineering, and DevOps with practical cloud proficiency in AWS and Google Cloud, frequently owning firmware, microservices, and SaaS stacks end-to-end. Mike has led teams, hired engineers, and launched products from MVP to production—rewriting embedded firmware and central services for campus emergency systems and designing IIoT thermographic platforms. He is a co-inventor on a patent-pending control system and favors pragmatic simplicity in design, often trading off complexity to improve reliability and maintainability. Based in Austin, he pairs a deep legacy in early CMS and high-traffic systems with a continued focus on delivering robust, real-world integrations for hardware-software ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (77)
memory-management10
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macos-sierra10
karabiner10
braintree10
chatgpt9
linux9
application9
python9
template-engine9
state-management9
jinja29
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
1MikeMakuch/muzikbrowzer
Jul 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
1MikeMakuch/mock-braintree
Apr 2018 - Feb 2023
mock braintree for testing backend without calling braintree
Contributions:1 review, 30 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 10 months
callingtestingbackendbraintreemock
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