Mikhael Burton
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMikhael Burton is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and APIs across startups and enterprises, currently driving engineering work at Microsoft. He has a strong track record in C#/.NET, API design, and data migrations—having moved production systems from MongoDB to SQL and integrated complex third‑party financial and shipping APIs. Mikhael combines hands‑on implementation (job queuing, MSMQ, LINQ, MSSQL) with BDD/TDD practices from paired‑programming environments, helping teams deliver maintainable, production‑grade services. Comfortable in both startup and large‑company contexts, he brings a pragmatic problem‑solving mindset and a history of owning cross‑layer features from business logic to deployment.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) at Bellevue CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (2)
getty3
api2
Github contributions (2)
burtonm3/SampleCode
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
tamaragevorgyan/gettyimages-api
May 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 2 months
apigettygetty-imagesimages-api
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