Michael Wester

The Predictive Index

Team Lead – Full Stack

User Experieince

Remote | Milwaukee, WI

Joined as an Individual Contributor (IC) Full Stack Engineer and transitioned access-control logic from Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), implemented as a reusable C#/.NET NuGet package. Following a successful proof of concept within one of the company's microservice-based APIs, I was promoted to Lead Engineer and tasked with conceptualizing and delivering an internal Angular component library.

• Managed and mentored a team of three engineers, improving delivery consistency and code quality through code reviews, engineering standards, and close collaboration with Product Owners.
• Led development of a reusable npm-based UX component library built on Angular Material and AG Grid, improving UI consistency and reducing frontend development time across teams and projects.
• Enhanced and maintained C# .NET Packages to be implemented across microservice RESTful APIs to support evolving access control and authorization requirements.
• Established and published a foundational Angular package to the internal npm registry, standardizing project structure and development practices while improving onboarding and maintainability.
• Created multiple shell scripts to streamline new-hire onboarding and ensure repositories remained clean and up to date.

goPuff

Software Engineer II – Full Stack

Forecasting

Remote | Milwaukee, WI

Full Stack Engineer on a new internal Forecasting Engineering initiative focused on improving staffing-demand forecasting and operational efficiency. Developed a greenfield TypeScript/GraphQL backend with a React/TypeScript frontend, designed for containerized deployment to a Kubernetes cluster.

• Automated reporting workflows, increasing end-user efficiency by more than 500% and reducing report-generation time from a week to a few hours.
• Designed and launched a React-based web application that improved user experience and streamlined forecasting workflows.
• Developed RESTful APIs using GraphQL and TypeScript to improve efficiency and flexibility in data querying across multiple databases.
• Collaborated across multiple departments and worked with PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS SQL Server databases.
• Assisted with development and maintenance of Docker containers to be deployed to a Kubernetes cluster.
• Helped establish and launch the forecasting initiative with the goal of improving workforce planning, reducing labor costs, and increasing operational efficiency.
• Developed GitHub Actions for automated testing, code coverage, and quality assurance.

InvestCloud

Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack

Essentials

Milwaukee, WI

Full Stack Engineer focused on developing a greenfield application for InvestCloud's new product initiative. The project introduced a streamlined alternative to the company's flagship platform while leveraging a modern technical stack including C#/.NET, Angular, TypeScript, RabbitMQ, and cloud-based services.

• Integrated Azure Service Bus and RabbitMQ into a microservices architecture, improving system communication and scalability.
• Implemented event broadcasting to allow microservices to independently process changes, reducing direct service-to-service communication and improving system decoupling.
• Developed Angular components and leveraged Angular Material to create a more consistent and intuitive user experience.
• Established frontend unit-testing standards that improved code quality, consistency, and development efficiency.
• Implemented GitHub Actions ensuring code quality, coding standards and code coverage were all met before commits were merged into master.
• Launched the flagship SPA built with Angular in under six months.
• Led a team of four engineers responsible for implementing user-experience features and developing, maintaining, and improving three microservice APIs.
• Launched team-based challenges with rewards to encourage continuous learning and development of coding skills.

Finastra

Team Lead – Full Stack

New Lending Platform

Milwaukee, WI

Hired as an Individual Contributor (IC) Full Stack Engineer and promoted shortly thereafter to Lead Engineer for a greenfield initiative to replace multiple legacy applications with a modern Single Page Application (SPA). Played a key role in delivering the new platform while helping define its architecture, development standards, and technical direction. Helped establish the initial Angular release-candidate project and designed, developed, and owned three microservice applications. The initiative replaced legacy VB6, VB.NET, Flash, and several other merged codebases with a new platform built from the ground up. The initiative was delivered by three US-based teams with support from engineers in Hyderabad, India, enabling continuous development across time zones. This distributed model supported continuous development across time zones while targeting a year-and-a-half timeline for delivery of the enterprise proof of concept (POC).

• Led a distributed team of three US developers, two US QA engineers, and three offshore developers.
• Owned architecture and development of three C#/.NET microservices.
• Spearheaded development of multiple Angular components as no component library existed at this point.
• Introduced Angular animations to enhance the overall user experience.
• Provided templates for unit testing in Karma/Jasmine for Angular components and library.
• Redesigned CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment friction and accelerating release cycles.
• Modernized legacy applications by replacing unsupported VB6 and Flash components with C# ASP.NET solutions.

Blue Yonder

Sr. Consulting Software Engineer

Consulting Services

Milwaukee, WI

Full Stack Engineer focused on bridging gaps between the core warehouse management platform and customer requirements. Developed customer-specific enhancements and reusable solutions while maintaining platform stability, quality, and coding standards.

• Spearheaded the implementation of voice enhancements that were subsequently integrated into the core product offering.
• Worked directly with customers to understand requirements, evaluate solutions, and tailor product capabilities to their needs.
• Collaborated across engineering teams to deliver customer-specific enhancements while maintaining core platform stability.
• Worked with customer implementation teams, customers and product managers to ensure smooth communication and integration to live customer environments.
• Provided on-call support as needed at all hours of the day, night and weekends to minimize downtime at customer sites.

Iptor Supply Chain Systems

Software Developer – Full Stack

Dynamin

Milwaukee, WI

Full Stack Engineer responsible for modernizing a warehouse management application and transitioning it from a legacy on-premises VB.NET application to a cloud-hosted, multi-tenant AngularJS solution.

• Developed RESTful APIs using C# .NET Entity Framework to support system integrations and improve data interoperability.
• Implemented Java-based SOAP web service integration with third-party systems.
• Separated core functionality into standalone components and developed new process flows to simplify customer implementations.
• Developed reusable integration templates to support future third-party integrations while reducing reliance on SQL Server Service Broker (SSB).

Blue Yonder

Dynamin

Milwaukee, WI / Remote | Denver, CO

Started as a Product Development Intern, contributing new features and resolving issues within the core product. Upon transitioning to a full-time role, continued supporting product development and customer implementations.

• Implemented threaded session expiration feature in the core product, enhancing security.
• Managed a Jira ticket log of known issues and features to work on before product release.
• Routinely met ticket goals each week leading up to official release windows.
• Collaborated closely with customers to understand their needs and translate them into actionable solutions.
• Provided comprehensive support throughout all phases of projects, from analysis and design to implementation.
• Provided onsite support ranging from large, million-square-foot warehouse facilities to smaller local distribution centers.