Mike Saelim

Senior Full Stack Engineer at a startup

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Experience

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer at a startup
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Senior Software Engineer at Bigeye
    Mar 2023 - Sep 2023 · 7 mos

    Java backend work on the data observability platform and its authorization systems.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
    Oct 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr

    Backend work building Java + gRPC services in Kubernetes that support our products for artists, record labels, and music licensors.

  • Civis Analytics (Chicago, IL)
    • Staff Software Engineer
      Oct 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs

      Full-stack work on both the Ruby on Rails backend and the React / AngularJS frontends of our data science platform. Building things out in Kubernetes, including some services in Python and Go. Mentoring junior engineers, and advising other teams on design decisions. Highlight: Built a system for users to compose automated workflows of their data science jobs with a graph UI. Integrated our platform with the OpenStack Mistral workflow engine, and open-sourced our Mistral API client. It quickly became one of the most popular features of our platform. Highlight: Stabilized and scaled our compute infrastructure, which was under extreme load from clients. Triaged issues and reinforced systems to smoothly handle 5X as much load as before, securing future contract renewals.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Apr 2019 - Oct 2019 · 7 mos

    • Software Engineer II
      Oct 2016 - Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Software Engineer at GrubHub
    Sep 2014 - Aug 2016 · 2 yrs

    Backend work on some of our Java + Spring Boot services, which use SQL and Cassandra databases. Mentored 2 interns. Highlight: Launched the new menus platform, allowing thousands of restaurants to edit their menus, reducing data entry costs by $1M per year and enabling integrations with chain restaurants.