Summary
Mike Rensel is a senior engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, user-focused applications and developer tooling. He has led full-stack architecture and delivery for products ranging from interactive learning environments at Pluralsight to a cloud planogram solution and a Kubernetes migration that halved hosting costs at Market Technologies. Comfortable across front-end (Angular micro-frontends, Storybook), back-end (Grails, MySQL), and infra (AWS EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, SOPS), he excels at turning legacy systems into reliable, automated pipelines. As an engineering manager he’s scaled teams and processes to improve code quality and release cadence, and as an early-stage founder he shipped fast, dependable onboarding workflows. Based in Petoskey, Michigan, he combines hands-on development with pragmatic cost and operational improvements that deliver measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc at Ferris State University