About

Michael L. Loschiavo is a Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of relevant experience in Full Stack and Back End Engineering. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Afterpay, where he is responsible for working on backend systems and internal tools to onboard new enterprise-sized merchants to the platform. Prior to this, Michael worked as a Software Engineer at Yelp, where he led a project to safely refactor the highest traffic legacy service without causing an outage. He also scaled a 100 requests per second (RPS) microservice up to handling 55,000 RPS after integration with the main Yelp platform. Michael has also held titles of On-Call Staff Member, Splunk Deputy (system monitoring), and Service Push Master for two years during his tenure at Yelp. Before joining Yelp, Michael worked as a Teaching Assistant at Trilogy Education, where he taught students Full Stack JavaScript web development through UC Berkeley at the San Francisco location. Students receive a certificate from the university after successful completion of the course. Michael holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services from Chapman University. He also holds a Full-Stack Web Development degree from App Academy and a Diplôme Langue Français in French Language and Literature from Aix-Marseille University. Michael's technical skills include Software Engineering, Backend Development, Microservices, Integration, Web Development, and Javascript. He is a result-driven professional who is passionate about solving complex problems and delivering high-quality solutions. If you'd like to contact Michael, the best way is either through LinkedIn messaging or by sending him an email. No cold calls please.