Nick Michels
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft
Amarillo, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNick Michels is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available infrastructure for healthcare and enterprise systems. He combines deep hands-on expertise in datacenter design, telecom operations, and cybersecurity—having managed 24x7 telecom processing at tens of millions of minutes per month and helped recover major ransomware incidents—with strategic architecture and cost/efficiency leadership for cloud deployments. At Nuance and Saykara he shaped infrastructure and security for voice-enabled medical AI products, and he now brings that reliability focus to Microsoft. A self-taught technologist comfortable across systems, networking, DBAs, and documentation, he excels at translating between diverse technical disciplines and guiding cross-functional teams toward sustainable solutions. Outside work he volunteers as an elite enforcer at PAX, hinting at a pragmatic, people-first approach to crowd safety and event operations.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (26)
change-tracking10
linq10
mvc10
dotnet10
rails10
efcore10
schema-migrations10
ruby10
entity-framework10
orm10
dotnet-core10
html10
activerecord10
database10
ruby-on-rails9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlanSchaeffer/SistemaLoja
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:27 PRs, 27 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
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nmichels/EntityFrameworkCore
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Entity Framework Core is a lightweight and extensible version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
data-accessentityunit-of-workcsharpentity-framework-core
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