Michael Vang
@michaelvang2
Senior software engineer specializing in backend systems, payments, and scalable healthcare platforms.
What I'm looking for
I am a senior software engineer with 11+ years building high-quality web, backend, and AI-driven systems, focused on scalable, reliable, and user-centered solutions.
At Amazon I led backend services for healthcare workflows and payment processing, delivered an Amazon Pay SDK, and improved release quality with automated tests and monitoring to reduce incidents.
Earlier I built and operated telemedicine backends at Teladoc Health, automated patient workflows and payments, and delivered server-side conversational automation to significantly cut manual work.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Developed backend for a healthcare platform, owning services for patient intake, billing,
scheduling, and video visits, and keeping them fast
● Worked on payment processing for charges, refunds, and reconciliations, keeping billing
accurate
● Built background jobs and data sync for documents and charts, keeping records accurate with
audit logs and secure access.
Owned backend services for a healthcare platform including patient intake, billing, scheduling, and video visits, improving reliability and automating workflows to reduce manual effort and incidents. Delivered an Amazon Pay SDK and modular payment layer enabling full payment flows, refunds, and reconciliations with automated tests and safe deployments.
Delivered a complete Amazon Pay SDK from scratch, making it easy for teams to add payments.
● Built a modular payment layer with a plug-in interface so gateways can be switched without
code rewrites.
Delivered a complete Amazon Pay SDK from scratch, making it easy for teams to add payments.
● Built a modular payment layer with a plug-in interface so gateways can be switched without
code rewrites.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Houston
Bachelor's Degree in Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2014
University of Houston
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2014
Completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, backend systems, and testing.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
GitHub
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
React Native
Xamarin
DB
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Shopify
Gmail
Node.js
Django
Laravel
Spring Boot
Android SDK
Next.js
Yarn
Bower
Tailwind CSS
Material-UI
Google Analytics
Figma
Redis
Terraform
Jira
Babel
React
Vue.js
Svelte
React-Vue
Webpack
rollup
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Kotlin
scikit-learn
Kafka
RabbitMQ
iOS
Homebrew
pnpm
Amazon Pay
Datadog
GraphQL
gRPC
Elasticsearch
WordPress
Strapi
Webflow
TypeScript
PHPUnit
OAuth2
sso
Docker
Twilio
WebRTC
Balsamiq
Canva
SQL
npm
Azure Cosmos DB
CakePHP
Browserify
Shadcn/ui
Playwright
Vite
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
Job categories
Skills
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