Yum! Brands

Designed, developed, and deployed the Loyalty and Promotion services for YUM's eCommerce Platform, driving a 56% increase in registered customer orders and playing a pivotal role in achieving $20 billion in annual digital sales

Lead Back-End Software Engineer

Developed the Customer and Authentication services for YUM's eCommerce Platform, enabling seamless digital ordering for over 100 million customers across more than 45,000 restaurants worldwide.

Senior Back-End Software Engineer

YouTube

- Co-organizer of DFW's largest software developer meetup (Dallas Software Developers)
- Producer and host of the Junior Jobs Podcast
- Conference and bootcamp guest speaker

Community Organizer & Content Creator

Pariveda Solutions

Led the end-to-end delivery of a $10 million cloud migration effort, overseeing 3 teams across engineering, QA, and DevOps (total of 12 contributors). Delivered the initiative under budget and on-time, while achieving near-zero customer impact (99.99% uptime)

Software Engineering Manager

- Setup a new cloud CI/CD pipeline for an on-prem VR experience, reducing install times by over 90% through using TravisCI and custom scripts
- Developed a cloud-based real-time leaderboard API able to consume 100+ requests per second by following data lake best-practices
- Trained and led a team of 12+ developers on Swift and increased team velocity by 15% by enabling the refactor from a legacy Xamarin.iOS app to a new native iOS app

Associate Full-Stack Mobile Developer

- Developed a mobile app for a national health services company, cutting call-center response times by 99% by automating doctor recommendations and cost estimates 
- Created intellectual capital that reduced the time to create a new mobile app by 75% through a re-useable, internal mobile framework that followed best practices

Full-Stack Mobile Developer

mCubed Labs

- Increased team velocity by 15% and reduced defect rate by 20% through introducing test-driven development, MVVM, and the active record pattern
- Built 9 separate mobile applications across 3 industries by using Objective-C and Java

Mobile Developer

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

- Saved nearly $3,000 monthly in developer time-savings by researching and documenting comprehensive requirements
- Increased employee productivity by 6% by implementing agile best-practices

Business Analyst

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience supporting small startups to Fortune 100 companies, currently building the new eCommerce platform for the world's largest restaurant company (Node.js, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, GraphQL)

I am also an independent programming teacher and career coach for those looking for a new job in tech. My opinions are my own

Erik Andersen

GameDevHQ

The Professional Unity Developer Program from GameDevHQ delivers career ready software engineers. The program focuses on using game development as a gateway to software engineering. Students who successfully complete this program are qualified for junior-mid level software engineering roles for the games industry and beyond. 

After completing our curriculum, our students are able to do the following:

• Develop and improve various game systems (AI, UI, tools, etc.)

• Code core systems and gameplay mechanics

• Implement game features and systems in Unity/C#

• Architect event-driven systems

• Profile & optimize applications

• Experienced with Agile development

• Experienced with Git/Github

• Experience publishing multiple game titles

• Work well with designers and artists

C# concepts mastered include the following:

• Classes

• Static Types

• Enums

• Dictionaries

• Abstract Classes and Interfaces

• Delegates and Events

• LINQ

• Game Programming Design Patterns

• Scriptable Objects

• Unity Web Requests

All projects created by the student in this program demonstrate a high-level mastery of the Unity platform as well as the full software development life cycle. The curriculum completed includes the following:

• 2D Vertical Shooter

• 2.5D Platformer

• 3D First-Person Shooter

• 2D Mobile Game Development

• Augmented Reality

• Enterprise App solutions with AWS Integration

• Unity Profiler and Optimization

Professional Unity Developer Program

I am a Unity2D/3D C# software engineer based in Clearwater, FL.

Highly motivated individual that is passionate about building games and interactive experiences using Unity & C#. I’m interested/currently endeavoring in crafting new gameplay experiences and pushing the boundaries of technology through mediums such as Augmented & Virtual reality. I’m a team player with strong communication skills. 

Currently enrolled in a Professional Unity Developer’s training program through GameDevHQ.

Skills:
•Unity2D/3D 
•C# •HTML/CSS 
•Github
•Javascript
•Lua 
•Roblox

Additional Skills:

Lighting, HDRP, URP, Post Processing, Level Design, Timeline & Cinemachine, UI, Animation, Event Driven Systems.

Projects Include:
2D, 2.5D, 3D, and Mobile Games & Applications

Currently learning animation in Unity and Sculpting in Blender.

Websites:
GitHub: https://github.com/LilMike808
Medium: https://medium.com/@little_michael101
Itch: https://lilmike808.itch.io/

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