Architected and implemented a new booking vertical via multiple React front ends to deliver a browser based booking experience for clients that removed the friction point of an app download, which has resulted in 10% increase in hourly bookings with 40% of traffic driven directly by links found in Instagram bios.

An initial member of the Upside Platform Engineering team responsible for design, implementation and maintenance of a Unified API that covers shopping, booking and cart management.

Developed new vendor flight queries that resulted in 150% increase in available flight options. Analyzed time complexity of flight search methods and designed new approaches that resulted in a 79% reduction in response time against previous baseline.

Previously, one of 4 engineers responsible for complete customer shopping flow for Rental Cars and Flights in the Upside Business Travel product, which drives >80% of customer spend. Maintains all relevant microservices including edge vendor services written in either Go (REST) or NodeJs (REST, SOAP).

Michael is the Founder and Director of Black Men Code, a nonprofit that serves the unique educational needs of Black men in Atlanta, GA. Black Men Code hosts a number of events in order to serve its clients. "Go, Code!" is an #HourOfCode event open to the public partnered with the Computer Science Department at Morehouse College aimed at providing requisite skills in problem solving via coding. "FutureMAKERS" is a robotics course developed for High School students that again teach problem solving through experiential learning via the #GoPiGo robotics platform.