Summary
Mike Micatka is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across cloud and distributed environments. He has a strong backend focus—Python, C++, and Linux—with hands-on experience in data tooling (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn) and production services at Google Pub/Sub, Wayfair, and SeatGeek, plus recent platform work on EKS and AWS. Mike has led technical efforts from microservices and Kafka-based architectures to large batch pipelines addressing data residency, and has mentored engineers as a team lead. His background uniquely blends lab research rigor from early academic roles with pragmatic engineering at high-scale companies, making him comfortable translating complex requirements into reliable, observable systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Michigan
English