Personal details

Michael M.

Software Architect

Based in: 🇺🇸 United States

Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

Java・10 yrs

Other skills

Spring Boot・10 yrs Spring・10 yrs MongoDB・10 yrs Redis・10 yrs Spring Batch・10 yrs RESTful API・10 yrs Apache Lucene・10 yrs AWS・5 yrs Langchain・1 yr

About

I've been doing Java programming professionally since 1997, with my first job at an online internet gaming startup. Since then, I have worked across different industries and have earned respect as someone who intimately understands how to write maintainable, scalable, and performant code. Besides programming, my other big passion is composing music. I am interested in the burgeoning field of artificial creativity and in developing tools that would allow us to force-multiply our natural creativity and intuitions.

Work Experience

Sofware Architect

Wirefree Thought LLC | Jan 2004 - Present

MongoDB

Angular

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

Spring Boot

Microservices

Vue.js

Mood Metrics Sentiment Analysis API – mood-metrics-api.dev

Designed and deployed v1 of a production-grade sentiment analysis REST API using LangChain4j for realtime NLP processing
Built privacy-focused, high-throughput service on Digital Ocean Kubernetes with PII scrubbing and multi-language support
Built accompanying Angular/TypeScript demo client
Roadmap includes anomaly detection, trend analysis, web-hooks, and enhanced agentic AI capabilities

GeoDB Global Cities API – geodb-cities-api.wirefreethought.com

Built and deployed globally accessible GraphQL/REST API serving city/region/country data in multiple languages
Achieved 99.9% uptime with thousands of daily API calls via GCP Kubernetes deployment
Developed automated ETL pipeline processing millions of geographic records and integrated subscription billing

Java Solutions Architect

Capstone IT | Jul 2022 - Sep 2025

Java

SQL

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Spring Security

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Docker Compose

Liquibase

Helm

RESTful API

Counterworks Supply Chain Modernization

Led backend team of 5 engineers in modernizing automotive supply chain platform serving hundreds of retail locations
Architected micro-services solution with realtime inventory sync using RabbitMQ messaging and Feign clients
Designed and implemented Anti-Corruption Layer (ACL) services for seamless legacy-to-modern migration
Built distributed Redis-based locking for coordinated resource access across locations
Established organization-wide coding standards, testing practices, and API-first development (API Dog)
Prototyped GraalVM native images to address memory constraints on legacy hardware

Projects

Mood Metrics API

2025 | https://mood-metrics-api.dev

RabbitMQ

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Helm

Langchain

LLM

Agentic frameworks

The Mood Metrics API analyzes sentiment in submitted text and optionally tracks it by feed ID. It returns categorized sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral) and numerical confidence scores. Planned features include detection of long-term sentiment patterns and anomalies.

GeoDB Cities API

2025 | https://geodb-cities-api.wirefreethought.com

MongoDB

Localization

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Location Based applications

GeoDB is an online places database. It exposes city, county, island, region, and country data via both GraphQL and REST APIs.

Education

Harvey Mudd College

Bachelor's degree・Engineering / Computer Science

Sep 1993 - May 1997

Certifications & Awards

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Amazon Web Services | Feb 2023