About

Michael Dimchuk is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently working at Rivian, where he is responsible for building the core services of its digital technology platform. Michael is an expert in software engineering, microservices, CI/CD, infra, NoSQL, GCP, integration, backend, Cassandra, and Spring. At Rivian, Michael is building out the payments and core services infrastructure that powers the company's digital technology platform. He is driving engineering excellence through rigorous code reviews and continuously raising the bar. Michael introduced static type analysis, linting, security scanning, and various other automation tools to improve the development process. He is always pushing for the best possible solution under time constraints and aggressively paying down technical debt. Michael also designed and built the team's CI/CD pipelines and end-to-end release process. In addition to his work at Rivian, Michael has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Grow Technologies and Works Applications Co., Ltd. At Grow Technologies, Michael led the company's architecture endeavors, bringing together product and engineering to ensure the feasibility and scalability of features being worked on. He built the data aggregation and anonymization platform, several microservices, and wrote several frameworks to support the platform. Michael also mentored junior engineers and co-ops and did extensive code reviews. At Works Applications Co., Ltd., Michael was the leader of the backend team, engineering a reliable infrastructure for the company's ERP system. He was responsible for developing and maintaining internal frameworks and optimizing several Spring microservices. Michael also worked on the architecture team, focusing on creating frameworks to support microservice architecture development. Michael holds a Diploma in Computer Systems Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology and completed high school at Sutherland Secondary. He is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for mentoring his peers in engineering best practices and industry standards.