# Michael Ericson

> Full stack Engineer at Chewy

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelericson

Senior Software Engineer with an interest in creating web applications in React, microservices in node.js, and maintaining services in Jave EE. Interested in performance monitoring, improving code quality, and using log and analytic data to retrieve key insights on users.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ Chewy
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer II @ Chewy
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Full stack engineer for managing and viewing one's pet profile and providing personal content catered to one's pet.

- Transformed web facing services from utilizing en-premise monolithic backends services to cloud-based SOA architecture
- Led team effort to go from using a JSP/javascript framework in a monolith to using a React/typescript micro-frontend
- Provided monitoring, logging, and analytics necessary to ensure stability of our system
- Created and consumed Web APIs to deliver features
- Modernized UI and UX

### Senior Software Engineer @ Liberty Mutual Insurance
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Collaborated with product owners, management and developers through providing presentations in lunch and learn sessions, hosting design and learning sessions, and discussing project feasibility

Wrote modern containerized microservices using CQRS and Node.js pattern in Node.js

Developed code in Java EE/Websphere to update existing backend APIs to improve user experience

Provide analysis, business requirements, and proof of concept for modern identity based security and moving to cloud

### Full Stack Developer @ Liberty Mutual Insurance
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Provided monitoring, alerting and analytics in New Relic, Splunk and other sources to ensure stability of system and track retention and success of A/B experiments

Developed branded reusable consumable components in React using TDD in Jest and Enzyme

Used functional testing for multiple devices to ensure stability of system

### Software Engineer @ CovalentCareers, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Diego, California
Architected with React and React to create a better SPA and mobile friendly user web experience 

Utilized Django rest framework to provide rest APIS and query and update user data

Collaborated with business, and vendors to fix hundreds of bugs from a remote position to meet tight deadline

### Lab Technician @ Interplex Industries, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
•Used TrueChem software for statistical process control, data logging, and computations
•Reported software bugs and details about how to fix them to software administor 
•Troubleshot issues with manufacturing and ensured high quality though performing chemical and laboratory tests
•Trained incoming lab technicians in software and lab technologies and served as a mentor to them

### Chemical Operator @ Pilgrim Foods
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greenville, HN
•Calculated the reagent chemicals needed in large scale reactor and time of discharge to produce quality vinegar

### Engineering Research Assistant @ University of Rhode Island
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Kingston, RI
Produced CAD diagrams for manufacturing plant to ensure regulation compliance
Calculated experimental results using excel and regression analysis to determine success of pilot test process

### Computational Chemistry Research Assistant @ National Science Foundation
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
•Programmed, troubleshot, and tested a molecular modeling simulator to determine composition of a mixture 
•Implemented Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, which uses iteration and bayesian statistics


## Education
### Data Analytics
Northeastern University
Jan 2019

### Web Applications in Javascript and NodeJS
Hack Reactor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Chemical Engineering
University of Rhode Island
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

### High School diplona in college prep/honors
Lincoln Senior High School
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29