Michael Christenson II Blockchain expert, Rustacean, Gopher, and Entrepreneur

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Co-Founder

Our Forges

Dec 2021 - Current (4 years 6 months)

Focusing on stabilizing economic foundations and venturing out into space, I help organize the co-operatives, collect contracts, guide our blockchain based consultancy services, and get elbow deep in the software engineering.

Principal Software Engineer

Corning

Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 (6 months)

In the Emerging Technologies division to provide automation, composability, scale tooling and architectures using: - Go, Python, C#, Rust - PowerApps - Kubernetes - Terraform - AWS - Azure - GraphQL, Rest

Senior Software Engineer Consulting

Fuel Labs

Oct 2021

October 2021 (1 month) Rustacean helping develop this smart contract platform as the future of blockchain hybrid development. I am a contributor to the Rust code base in the Client, VM, and Sway (programming language) development.

Chief Software Engineer

Banco Popular

Aug 2021 - Oct 2021 (3 months)

Continuing the role I had in Novetta as an Aquihire in Accenture Federal Services. I help set the standards and processes for our engineering teams, architect new frameworks and paradigms, and ensure the cohesiveness and quality of our division's work.

Chief Software Engineer

Novetta

Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 (3 months)

I help set the standards and processes for our engineering teams, architect new frameworks and paradigms, and ensure the cohesiveness and quality of our division's work.

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Novetta

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021 (5 months)

Software Developer

Novetta

Nov 2020 - Feb 2021 (4 months)

Senior Software Engineer

DataGrail

Aug 2020 - Nov 2020 (4 months)

As a Senior Software Engineer at DataGrail, I help implement the software to support new privacy policies, compliance discovery, and third party integrations. This uses a blend of Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Python, Bash, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Squad Leader

IBM

Oct 2019 - Aug 2020 (11 months)

As squad leader I manage, mentor, and train the Capacity Management tooling team for ZaaS and other IBM Cloud Systems. As well as continuing my duties as a Development Software Engineer. I've applied my knowledge and expertise in mentoring to launch a new product from a skunk works ideation after hours, to an official product with my own team to mentor, deadlines to hit, and resources to manage. We went from a team of three to a team of five; from team members with no practical Kubernetes, Golang, GraphQL, or SQL knowledge, to fully capable Golang, et al, developers in their own rights; from an MVP in one qurter, to a performant beast under production load that passed Penetration Testing with flying colors in another quarter; fr

Development Software Engineer

IBM

Jan 2019 - Oct 2019 (10 months)

My job consists mainly in automating the provisioning and scaling of Z systems as well as developing APIs that build the backbone of the ZaaS cloud. In this duty I use a mix of languages including Python, Golang, Javascript, Rust, C, and Java and technologies such Ansible, Jenkins, SonarQube, Cloudant, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and EtcD.

Senior Software Applications Engineer

Red Hat

Sep 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 4 months)

My work here consists of mainly API applications for our Subscription Management systems. Currently I use a lot of Golang, Makefiles, RPM packaging, Ruby, and Python. My current project is also using 3scale's gateway functions, a new cli tool written in Golang to help manage OAuth 2.0 tokens, and a lot of Containers. We're running a customized version of Kanban retooled to work with a Feature based automated release flow. In order to make this work, I've helped build and taken part in a team to define a new way to get systems through CI/CD onto the Hybrid Cloud and am leading one of our projects that use it. this consists mainly of a blend of Jenkins, Git repository automation, and Openshift. Automation is the future.

Software Engineering Contractor

Red Hat

Mar 2017 - Sep 2017 (7 months)

Area As a senior applications developer, I've been brought in to work on RedHat's ITPNT groups projects, both in Ruby on Rails and Golang.

Lead Game Programmer

Arizona State University

May 2016 - Oct 2016 (6 months)

As the lead and senior in multiple grant funded projects for the Center for Games and Impact, my main responsibilities included project design, back and front end architecture, game engine proof of concepts, and story creation and management. I spent a fair amount of time structuring our loose user generated curriculum platform into a graph based structure that could be easily modified and maintained, which included a large rewrite of the API from Rails to Nodejs, writing a front end in module React components, writing C# modules to be used in Unity3D for our various games, as well as various devops duties such as creating and maintaining a pipeline that moved our hosting from vmware to container based deployments on aws.

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Senior Software Developer

Stotz Equipment

Dec 2015 - Mar 2016 (4 months)

I worked at an internal stealth startup, Leaf. The goals of the project was to enable farmers to have more efficient operations, improving visibility and understanding through IoT data collection and predictive analytics. As the Senior Lead Developer in the Phoenix division, I was entrusted with the Front End Architecture, team development, and Mobile/IoT Guidance. I was also the Lead Engineer for the data analytics UX design. This was a unique opportunity that allowed me to apply Golang, Java, C, R, Python, and ReactJS across a range of uses: from the backend server and IoT devices, to the front end and expanding the team through mentoring and meetups, to expanding the case for features and UX through data analysis and collaboration

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Principal Software Engineer

The Medical Memory by Clarit-MD

Jun 2015 - Jan 2016 (8 months)

Area My main responsibilities involve research and development of technologies for our roadmap, Android, Ruby on Rails, and AngularJs development, as well server operations. - I setup device testing, architected and deployed our Site Reliability Engineering infrastructure, and directly worked with partners on roadmap planning, new, and current feature development. - I also acted as a Subject Matter Expert in the application of NLP and ML technologies as needed

Senior Software Developer

Nextiva

Jun 2014 - May 2015 (1 year)

Area I was hired to mentor current team members, to refactor, and to architect B2B communication systems. I leveraged Go (Golang), Ruby on Rails, Erlang, XMPP, Clojure, and JavaScript to launch their next generation Communications Software; built a proof of concept NLP infrastructure to help improve conversation quality through sentimentality analysis and manager interactions; and helped train junior developers in better practices and RFC application.

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Software Developer

RevSpring

Jul 2013 - Apr 2014 (10 months)

As a senior software developer I was in charge of new architecture design, planning, doing dev ops, and leading projects. I used a variety of technologies including Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, NodeJs, and Docker.io to build better micro systems, a more flexible and secure multitenant whitelabelled product, and move from a private data center, to a cutting edge fully containerized and scalable public cloud. I led my team through the next two versions of the system while integrating newly acquired businesses into them.

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Software Developer

The Deep Woods Brigade

Jun 2012 - Jul 2013 (1 year 2 months)

I co-founded and launched this division of RebelHold. I did the majority of software development, business planning, and mentoring in this Ruby on Rails and MongoDB first shop.

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Software Developer

DevFU Pty Ltd

Mar 2011 - Jun 2011 (4 months)

I worked as a Ruby and MongoDB software consultant. It was a short term position with one client to help with overflow, but it was fun. I helped launch a startup health care provider in Germany with a scheduling application. It was an agile process using skype to keep up communications and daily standups.

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Senior Ruby on Rails Developer / Contractor

Solvate

2011 - 2012 (1 year 1 month)

As a programmer resource for Solvate, I worked on various startups from facebook platform apps, to high fashion ecommerce solutions, to loan qualification platforms. I stayed with the company until it closed shop.

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CEO

RebelHold

Aug 2010 - Jun 2017 (6 years 11 months)

As a co-founder of RebelHold, I apprenticed in talent, found clients, ran story boarding, negotiated contracts, and took care of the accounting and billing. On top of that I managed to code on projects fulltime as well.

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Software Developer

Integrum Technologies LLC

Aug 2010 - Apr 2011 (9 months)

I worked on various Ruby on Rails projects with a great group of Agile developers including projects with Intel (solving agile testing solutions for chip testing), Microsoft (a Windows Mobile 8 app to help other Microsoft developers learn Windows Mobile 8 development), Sorenson (Android development of a social video network), and Zynga (Farmville 2 game development and database scalability operations). I also worked with others in the community to strengthen Gangplank and HeatsyncLabs

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Software Developer

Teachers Without Borders

Aug 2009 - May 2010 (10 months)

Michael was invited to work on TWB as a transition consultant. His task was to help migrate the current code from their previous hosting environment to a new one, to help debug some of the issues they had with the code, to help train a team of Java developers in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and to make sure that the team could take over the project once the transition was done. Michael ended up spending a little over a month in training, setting up EC2 instances, and helping port certain parts of the code base over to newer technologies. The code base started as a LuvdByLess and educommons fork. Almost every portion of the LuvdByLess side has been replaced with new code and moved in to a project called luvfoo. That project is now openso

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CTO

The Urban Rebellion

Dec 2008 - Jul 2010 (1 year 8 months)

CTO and founder of this software consulting firm. I had various clients like East Media, Posner Advertising, and Wexford Jewelers. I developed mostly using Ruby on Rails, html, css, and javascript; with a smattering of flash thrown in the mix.

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Senior Lead / Project Manager

True Lobby

2008 - 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Truelobby was created as the new way to communicate with your state and federal representatives. It brings modern communication to congressional houses, and allow a very personal touch to things that effect our lives daily. I was brought in to this project after most of the design for the site was done. The site is being tested in the State of Washington and had a hard deadline in mid January; to be built, tested, run through a beta, and launched into production. Michael was brought on mid December and recommended a crew of four individuals, including himself, two of which he hand picked, and the other who had applied for the position he had at the same time (he was made the secondary Lead Developer as a time zone overlap). My

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Senior Software Engineer

Wexford Jewelers

Jan 2007 - Jan 2009 (2 years 1 month)

In a CTO role, I planned technology roadmaps, and developed the core application that has helped run this business, store side, and web side, over the past several years. Using mainly Ruby on Rails, and stepping through the database upgrade cycle from mysql, to postgresql, to mongodb, I've managed to keep scaling them and launching them into cloud hosting from rudimentary EC2 alpha days. I'm also part owner and have an active role as board member.

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Senior Lead / Project Manager

The Futurecorp Group

Dec 2006 - Sep 2008 (1 year 10 months)

My tasks included building the various Project Management paper shufflings such as Functional Requirements, the Business Requirements, and the Wireframes; Provide a program flowchart based on that knowledge; Provide Milestones and a general Timeline for the project; Provide technical support and guidance in regards to the technology used, code standards, and hourly quotes per ticket. I also got to do a lot of heavy coding on the interface side of flash. Endemol was a main client of Futurecorp's. One of my favorite projects was building the attwilliams site. There were a lot of physics and other dynamic interactions happening on the front, with the data being fed through a custom made class that read the rss feed from other pa

Software Engineer

2checkout

Feb 2006 - Nov 2006 (10 months)

I was in charge of helping the developers transition from their old Perl scripts to a Catalyst based application, help with the data migration, work with their QA team, and coordinate with the call center during the massive rollout of their platform. I gave talks, developed transition code, and helped bring the team forward through the production launch of the refactored platform.

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Software Developer

Resource

Jun 2005 - Jan 2006 (8 months)

Created Flash OMA's (ads and campaigns) and published them via PointRoll's Ad Designer Brands that he created OMA's for include: Herbal Essences; Aussie Shampoo; World Kitchen; Head and Shoulders 'Deep Blue'. Helped create Flash content and games for the new Herbal Essences Site Created the 'Find your Formula' Form code using ASP Classic with effects created using Javascript Designed Actionscript 2.0 Classes for use in future OMA's Helped build the various documentation and frameworks for a redesign of Chico's, Soma, and White House Black Market: Co-Authored the Software Requirement Specifications; Co-Authored the Software Architecture Documentation; Wrote the layout framework for all 3 sites. Tools used include

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Software Developer / Server Administrator

Eastmedia

Sep 2004 - Oct 2005 (1 year 2 months)

* Server adminstration * Ruby on Rails Developer * Flash Designer * Helped plan future projects, run scrum, etc. * Some of the clients included: Verisign and Lime This was the early days for Ruby on Rails. It was still untested and Lime was the largest site to date run off of it. The OpenID server was to be next. Performed UNIX administration by remote setup a 5-system cluster for full database redundancy and load balancing; Helped develop the feel of the site integrating polls, comments, and basic site flow; Helped develop full site analytics so that the client could view them via the web or an excel spreadsheet; Helped increase social (user) interaction through several relative content/comment linking, and user profile l

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Owner / CTO

Flashband Wireless / Xystus Systems

Jun 2002 - Oct 2004 (2 years 5 months)

I created, managed, and ran a Wireless ISP, Apple Dealership, and Web Consultancy. During that time I was involved in all layers of hiring, sales, client contracts, development, network deployment, and repairs. Basically I climbed over a 180' routinely, in sun, wind, and rain, installed antennas, did site surveys, and generally felt the thrill of it all. I also got to meet a lot of people (like the band that needed and emergency repair en route to a show), spent a lot of time tweaking security to keep virus traffic down and DDOS attacks suppressed. My quiet times were spent coding with my team and training them in Ruby, Mysql, and Javascript; with a dash of C++ and OpenGL thrown in for good measure. This was during the early

Programmer

freelance

Aug 1996 - Jun 2002 (5 years 11 months)

Programming for various clients using Php, Flash/Actionscript, Pearl, Java, C/ C++, and Javascript. Most of my clients were small businesses as I weathered out the .Com bust. Some of the client work included server management for BellSouth.Net, Game Engine work for Columbus based developers, and a Chat service for corporate communications.

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