# Michael Barlock

> Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelbarlock

I’m a design-curious, full-stack software engineer with a heavy focus on maximizing impact through effective experience design. I build high-quality, performant, secure, and maintainable cloud-native applications that delight users across industries.

I love mentoring and teaching others, barbecue, home automation, and ringing chords with my barbershop quartet.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2024 – Present | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Lead design and delivery of features and optimizations for Replay with scope spanning multiple teams and engineering-partners
- Simplified build and deployment times saving $300k/year in developer productivity and reduced time-to-deploy to under 5 min (from over 30).
- Worked cross-functionally with design, product, and data science to solve user problems through A/B testing and without over-engineering
- Introduced an improved testing culture with Playwright, freeing developers from manual QA, and improved unit test coverage by 20%
- Improved client load times by 3s through caching, backend optimization and tracing, and improved loading waterfalls

### Staff Software Engineer @ SHOWRUNNER
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Developed from scratch, an award-winning filmmaking platform that connects physical sets with Unreal Engine with WebRTC real-time video streaming
- Architected end-to-end pipeline for building and deploying web and native apps with local and remote control
- Led Agile engineering org and facilitated continuous releases with collaboration from product and design

### Architect / Senior Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
- Architected enterprise-scale MLOps platform, enabling no/low-code AI app development
- Open source improvements to Slack’s own developer tools and bot tooling to simplify infusing AI into Slack bots
- Evangelized “inner source” and built a company-wide Python K8s operator framework
- Designed and implemented a SOC 2 compliant AWS deployment
- Led delivery, engineering, DevOps, and certification efforts for 30+ person product team

ConveyorAI • Watson AIOps • Slack/IBM Partnership

### Senior Software Engineering @ ConsenSys
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Built tamper-resistant, distributed, static websites (ConsenSys/web3studio-soy)
- Created the first music NFT that pays back royalties to artists. Custom dApp, ERC712 contract extension deployed to Ethereum main-net.

### Senior Software Engineer @ LifeOmic
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Built HIPPA-compliant continuous CI/CD pipeline to AWS using Terraform and Docker
- Worked cross-company and discipline to create a shared design system
- Led Agile frontend team for JupiterOne

### Senior Software Engineering Lead, IBM Whitewater @ IBM
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Led transformation effort and rolled out Slack, GitHub, and TravisCI to 400k IBMers
- Taught modern practices through conference-like talks and hackathons worldwide
- Used resilience engineering to ensure uptime and led internal and held cross-company learning reviews (post-mortems) with vendors
- Developed Slack bots to automate internal processes

Whitewater • Storefront • Service Engage


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/barlock
- Website: https://barlock.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22