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Michael Helt

@michaelhelt

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Senior .NET developer specializing in cloud migrations, APIs, and performance optimization.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead backend and cloud migrations, design robust APIs, mentor teams, and deliver secure, high-performance solutions using CI/CD and modern .NET on AWS.

I am a senior .NET developer with extensive experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs, migrating services to AWS, and modernizing legacy applications. I lead small teams, manage full project lifecycles with CI/CD, and drive performance improvements and test coverage through TDD and tooling like SonarQube.

I have delivered USDA-related financial and disaster-recovery projects, implemented GraphQL and pagination strategies, and collaborated with DBAs to transition complex queries to stored procedures and EF Core. I hold AWS Cloud Practitioner and SAFe 5 certifications and prioritize secure, maintainable solutions that align with customer needs.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Application Development Engineer

ASRC Federal

Nov 2020 - Feb 2026 (5 years 3 months)

Led a team of 5 developers to create and modernize RESTful APIs and microservices, migrated services to AWS, and improved reliability and testing to achieve over 80% code coverage and minimal production downtime.

C .NET Core AWS RESTful APIs Dapper xUnit CI CD SonarQube

Application Developer

ASRC Federal

Jul 2013 - Nov 2020 (7 years 4 months)

Maintained and modernized webforms and WPF applications, transitioned a desktop WPF app to web, and refactored authentication/role systems to be data-driven to reduce future changes.

C ASP.NET WPF MVC SQL Server LINQ Dapper Postman

Software Developer

Colorado State University

Mar 2013 - Jul 2013 (4 months)

Upgraded webforms to MVC and improved client-side validation and UX using HTML5, Razor, and jQuery to deliver faster, more secure library-sharing webpages.

C ASP.NET MVC HTML5 jQuery CSS SQL Server