Michael Garner
@michaelgarner1
Senior AI platform and backend engineer optimizing scalable, reliable systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a senior AI platform and backend engineer with deep experience designing and shipping production services for high‑traffic systems and AI workflows.
I've led backend and platform work building multi‑tenant FastAPI services, production RAG pipelines, and asynchronous orchestration that cut inference latency ~40% and improved suggestion accuracy ~28%.
At eBay I migrated monolithic marketplace services to microservices, designed high‑throughput async notification systems, and integrated LLM structured extraction to enrich geolocation and logistics data.
I focus on reliable cloud infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), observability, and security practices that reduce incident resolution time and enable enterprise onboarding.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior AI Platform Engineer
CodeGPT
Jul 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)
Led backend architecture for a multi-tenant AI platform delivering real-time code analysis and generation; built production RAG pipelines that improved suggestion accuracy ~28% and reduced inference latency ~40% via async processing and autoscaling.
Senior Backend Engineer
eBay
Dec 2016 - Jun 2023 (6 years 6 months)
Led migration of core marketplace services from monolith to microservices, improving throughput and performance ~50%; built asynchronous notifications (Python + AWS SQS) and integrated LLM-based extraction for data enrichment.
Software Developer
ProductiveEdge
May 2015 - Nov 2016 (1 year 6 months)
Designed service-oriented backends that reduced API latency ~40% through architecture and query optimization; implemented RBAC, Redis caching, Elasticsearch indexing, and deployed containerized services to GCP.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Georgia Southern University
Master of Science, Computer Science
2012 - 2015
Completed a Master's degree in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering and systems design.
Georgia Southern University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2008 - 2012
Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science covering core programming, algorithms, and system design principles.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
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