Michael Bilek

Engineering Manager at Bestow

Morrison, Colorado, United States

About

Accomplished Software Engineer skilled in leading team members to deliver high quality backend systems. Detail-oriented with strong knowledge of Golang, AWS, Docker, CI/CD, and SOLID design principles. Adhering to industry standards and best practices in order to produce clean, reliable code.

Experience

  • Bestow (Full-time · 4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Engineering Manager
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer II
      Nov 2021 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Webroot (6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Manager Software Engineering
      Apr 2021 - Nov 2021 · 8 mos

      • Head of the Mobile Services team. • Supervised a group of engineers to ensure delivery of critical backend capabilities while facilitating individual growth. • Actively engaged with product leadership to prioritize features and align releases. • Assisted team in researching and producing gRPC based services written in Go. • Ensured team coding standards were defined and adhered to. • Guided architecture and design discussions to verify proper documentation and alignment with business requirements. • Lead various Agile Scrum ceremonies.

    • Lead Software Engineer
      Aug 2020 - Apr 2021 · 9 mos

      • Mentored software engineers, QA engineers, and interns. • Applied SOLID design principles to system architecture and code structure. • Maintained API gateway (Kong), Kubernetes (EKS) and service mesh (App Mesh) infrastructure using Terraform. • Oversaw architecture and delivery of a user authorization system built on OAuth 2.0 and utilized by over 100K users. • Built up CI/CD pipeline in GitLab to analyze, test, build, containerize, and deploy API services and infrastructure.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Aug 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      • Produced Golang code and unit tests for several reusable packages and services. • Shipped a system of microservices that analyzes Android based software for malicious threats. • Utilized Docker for creating cloud native containers. • Wrote OpenAPI and Swagger based API contracts. • Utilized various AWS products for service hosting, deployment, scaling, logs, monitoring, and metrics. • Created and maintained projects in GitLab.

  • Gaming Laboratories International, LLC (7 yrs 2 mos)
    • Software Engineer II
      May 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Performed thorough testing of gaming software and systems. • Developed internal tools to help employees test and document 3rd party gaming products. These tools were written in C# and C++/CLI. • Contributed in constructing a website for 3rd parties to maintain its gaming product inventory. This site was written in C#, JavaScript and CSS using an MVC pattern. • Created detailed documentation for various testing procedures.

    • Software Engineer I
      Sep 2013 - May 2014 · 9 mos

    • Senior Test Engineer
      Oct 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr