Michael Nelson

Lead Software Engineer | Dallas, TX
me@michaelwnelson.com

Employment

USAA

3 yrs 1 mo

  • Lead Software Engineer
    Mar 2020 — Present • 6 mos
  • Senior Software Engineer
    Dec 2018 — Mar 2020 • 1 yr 4 mos
  • Software Engineer
    Sep 2017 — Dec 2018 • 1 yr 4 mos

Envestnet

3 yrs

  • Senior Software Engineer
    Jan 2017 — Sep 2017 • 9 mos
  • Software Engineer
    Oct 2014 — Dec 2016 • 2 yrs 4 mos

Placemark Investments

Placemark Investments was acquired by Envestnet
  • Software Engineer
    Jul 2013 — Sep 2014 • 1 yr 4 mos

Vertical Nerve

  • Jr. Web Developer
    Sep 2012 — Jun 2013 • 10 mos

University of North Texas System

  • Web Developer
    Apr 2012 — Sep 2012 • 6 mos

Roobix, LLC

  • Web Developer (Remote Contractor)
    Dec 2010 — Sep 2012 • 1 yr 10 mos

University of North Texas

  • Web Developer
    Feb 2008 — Apr 2012 • 4 yrs 3 mos

Education

University of North Texas

B.A., Information Technology
2007 — 2012

Skills

Languages

JavaScript, Java, Python, Bash

Frameworks, Libraries, & Tools

React, Redux, Webpack, Sass, Jest, Mocha, Chai, Selenium, Cypress

Other

Linux, Git, JIRA, JSON, CSS, HTML

Awards & Honors

OOSA Award

USAA — February, 2018
Awarded quarterly to a developer who promotes an innovative culture.

ABCD Award

Placemark Investements — December, 2013
Awarded annually to an employee that went Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

Open Source

  • labor-notifier
    This is a simple Twilio application that will automatically text persons who have elected to be notified when your child is born preventing you from manually notifying friends and family, giving you time back to focus on your newborn.
  • reddit-modqueue-discord
    This is a simple bot that will authenticate to a given reddit account, pull reports from a given subreddit, and post the new reports to your Discord.
  • pytracker
    This is a project I forked and updated to automate Placemark Investment's Pivotal Tracker processes. It's a simple Python API that wraps the Pivotal Tracker REST APIs.
  • fcdallas-css
    I created this project to provide a custom stylesheet for the FC Dallas subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/fcdallas
  • mls-standings-scraper
    I created this project, similar to fcdallas-css above, to provide a Markdown table of the MLS standings for the FC Dallas subreddit sidebar.
  • angularjs-dropdown-multiselect
    Contributor.
  • react-tabs
    Contributor.

Resume

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