# Michael Dresser

> Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaeldresser

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Kubecost
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- 100xed supportable scale by proposing, POCing, and productionizing a backend architecture overhaul. Enabled sales into a previously-inaccessible market segment. (Go, DuckDB)
- Acted as a link between my team and the company, especially by providing estimates and converting business objectives into actionable plans for fellow engineers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Kubecost
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Served as tech lead for Kubernetes (K8s) cost optimization.
- Scaled quantile-based container sizing recommendations to 250,000+ container environments. (Go)
- Designed a filtering language for core APIs. Built a lexer, parser, and interpreter. The new representation smoothed the path of later architecture improvements. (Go)
- Reduced developer feedback loop from 10 minutes to 30 seconds by setting up local runs, optimizing container builds, and evangelizing the improved workflow. (Go, Docker)
- Helped users upgrade without data loss by leading design and implementation of schema backwards-compatibility. (Go)

### Full Stack Engineer @ Kubecost
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Built and marketed an open-source CLI. 700+ GitHub stars. (Go)
Built a nightly CI/CD process. Provided easy internal testing and bleeding-edge user installs. (GitHub Actions, Docker, Helm)
- Built a feature to determine if K8s workloads can be rescheduled onto spot nodes, leading to >50% savings. (Go, TypeScript, React)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Contributed to the Kubernetes project by designing and implementing an improved cluster deployer for GCE. The Kubernetes project runs 90,000 end-to-end tests a month on GCE. The new deployer simplified a convoluted end-to-end test workflow, improving the experience of test writers and testing infrastructure maintainers.
- Contributed patches to repositories across the Kubernetes project.

### Graduate Student Staff @ University of Colorado Boulder
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boulder, CO
Held office hours to aid students enrolled in Linux Systems Administration with coursework. Course material includes basic bash scripting, logical volume management, automated host configuration using Puppet, access control management, manual and DHCP configuration of network interfaces, DNS server configuration, and firewall configuration using iptables.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Twilio Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Denver Area
- Created new service and associated automatic pipeline to recover failed operations by recirculating Kafka messages.
- Designed and laid out a development plan for a user creation service to enable automated testing. Once created, I moved that service into Kubernetes. Within weeks, service was in use by over 3 teams and allowed one of them to automate flows they were never able to before.
- Migrated legacy VM-based service into Kubernetes, saving up to an hour of developer time for every release.

### Software Engineering Intern @ LogRhythm
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Developed addition to Go microservice to write over 50,000 logs/minute to GCP Pub/Sub.
- Developed Go microservice that queries Elasticsearch to prevent PII cross-contamination.
- Added InfluxDB statistics recording to existing microservices to increase visibility of product usage.

### Software Intern @ overWatch.ID
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Denver Area
- Developed Python script for RADIUS authentication through a REST call.
- Developed Java (Spring) service with usage of SQL for integration with multiple ITSM products' APIs.
- Created and managed CentOS servers in an AWS-based environment.
- Wrote extensive test plans for the product which resulted in discovery of over 40 bugs in first two weeks of usage.

### Student Desktop Support Technician @ CU Boulder OIT
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Provided support with virus/spyware remediation, email setup/transfer, printer setup, driver installation, software installation/uninstallation, OS reinstallation/setup, network issues, OS boot failure recovery, data recovery.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree/Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelmdresser
- Portfolio: https://michaelmdresser.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30