# Michael Schroder

> Senior Software Engineer at Orchard Robotics

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelschroder

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Orchard
Jan 2024 – Present | Bellevue, Washington, United States

### Software Development Engineer II @ BLUE ORIGIN
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Kent, Wa
• Developed and maintained rocket telemetry and command library
• Maintained dev infrastructure from CI/CD to on-target debugging and coverage
• Developed avionics device driver used to determine viability of LIDAR hardware
• Developed software to collect and interpret data from radiation testing
• Worked with contractor to implement integration test suite for telemetry library
• Temporarily joined the ground control software team to help them integrate the
telemetry library and meet the deadline for our first human flight
• Worked with many teams who relied on our products as the core of their work
• Wrote and revised software requirements documentation
• Helped certify multiple products to meet DAL-C safety certification
requirements
• Developed hiring practices and trained new employees in their use
• Mentored and onboarded multiple peers, teammates, and contractors
• C, C++, Linker Script, ARM Assembly, Python, Bash, CMake

### Software Development Engineer @ Qualtrics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Seattle
• Improved Customer Experience and Employee Engagement Products
• Created RESTful APIs for use throughout all of the company’s products
• Lead development of new application from initial commit to general availability
• Helped migrate from Angular to React and Redux
• Communicated directly with customers to better understand requirements
• Javascript, Typescript, Java, PHP, Angular, React, SQL

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Seattle
Part of Redshift team

• Made improvements to Redshift, a petabyte-scale AWS Data Warehouse
• Took a leading development role implementing Python User Defined Functions
• Implemented a secure sandbox using Linux Containers (LXC) and Docker
• Created tools and changes to ease future development
• Became intimately acquainted with PostgreSQL and the Python/C API
• Worked within large existing codebase: C, C++, YACC, SQL, Bash

### Web Developer Intern @ WorkForce Software
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Livonia, MI
Added features and bug-fixes to Time and Attendance Web Application
Added features and security improvements to Mobile Web Application
Worked within large existing codebase: Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Ext JS
Created tools and changes to ease future development

### Website Developer Intern @ Quicken Loans
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Detroit, MI
Redesigned the Quicken Loans Relocation Site.
Implemented changes to the Quicken Loans Webpage.
Worked in large codebase with PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and jQuery.


## Education
### Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science
University of Michigan
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-schroder-dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-22