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Michael Livingston

@michaellivingston

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in scalable backend systems, cloud platforms, and modern web interfaces.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a backend- or cloud-focused engineering role where I can design scalable systems, mentor teams, and improve reliability using cloud-native practices.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years building scalable, reliable applications across Python, Java, and C# stacks. I focus on APIs and microservices using FastAPI, Spring Boot, and ASP.NET Core, and build modern frontends with React and TypeScript.

My work emphasizes cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure as code, and automated testing to ensure high availability and maintainability. I have implemented asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, and CI/CD pipelines that measurably improved performance and deployment confidence.

I mentor junior engineers, apply clean architecture and DDD principles, and deliver production-ready systems that scale; I seek roles where I can drive backend architecture, improve reliability, and contribute to cross-functional teams.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

AAA Auto Club Enterprises

Apr 2025 - Present (11 months)

Developed a backend platform with Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL to support high-volume data processing and internal APIs, reducing processing delays ~25% via Celery/Redis and improving service maintainability ~20% through DDD and clean architecture.

Python fastAPI PostgreSQL Celery Redis DDD AWS Lambda Pytest

Current

Software Engineer

Current

AAA

Apr 2022 - Present (3 years 11 months)

Built enterprise backend services with C# and ASP.NET Core, integrating SQL Server and Redis caching to improve response performance ~20%, added background processing with RabbitMQ/Hangfire, and delivered React/TypeScript dashboards.

C ASP.NET Core SQL Server Redis RabbitMQ Hangfire React TypeScript

Software Engineer

T-Mobile

Jul 2021 - Apr 2022 (9 months)

Developed backend services using Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL with JWT authentication and SQLAlchemy, and implemented Java Spring Boot modules to process millions of records and improve system scalability and maintainability.

Python Flask PostgreSQL SQLAlchemy JWT Java Spring Boot Pytest REST APIs

DevOps Engineer

AAA

Aug 2020 - Jul 2021 (11 months)

Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch), containerized apps with Docker/Kubernetes, and provisioned resources via Terraform to improve deployment velocity and monitoring.

CI CD GitHub Actions Jenkins AWS EC2 S3 RDS Docker Kubernetes Terraform

Java Developer

AAA

Jul 2018 - Aug 2020 (2 years 1 month)

Developed backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate to support REST APIs, optimized queries for MySQL/PostgreSQL, and implemented Kafka/RabbitMQ messaging to enable reliable microservice communication.

Java Spring Boot Hibernate MySQL PostgreSQL Kafka RabbitMQ REST APIs Junit

Web Developer

Tarleton State University

Jan 2017 - May 2018 (1 year 4 months)

Assisted in developing web pages and maintained site content using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and basic Python scripting while supporting version control and debugging practices.

HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript Python Git Debugging