# Michael Street, Ph.D. > Software Engineer Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelstreetphd Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and Go. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Chainlink Labs Jan 2022 – Present ### Lead Software Engineer (Web) @ theCut Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States 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. ### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Upside Business Travel Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### Full Stack Engineer @ Upside Business Travel Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area 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). ### Founder and Director @ Black Men Code, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta 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. ### Co-Founder @ Next Software Group Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Full stack engineer implementing a secure financial web application for cryptocurrency capital gains calculations written in React/Redux/NodeJS/postgres on AWS Lambda/AWS Aurora and tested via Jest [cryptotaxtools.com]. ### Managing Partner @ Anthony Street Partners, LLC Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Full-stack, web application and blockchain development, data science and agile coaching and training services. ### Chief Technology Officer @ Aligned Development Strategies, Incorporated Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### NSF Graduate Research Fellow @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Atlanta, GA Completed Ph.D. Dissertation "Integrated Performance Based Design of Communities and Distributed Generation" under Godfried Augenbroe in the Department of Architecture. ### Director of Research @ Pattern r+d Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Atlanta Michael is focused on using simulation as a tool for advanced decision making during early design and works at the intersection of architectural design and engineering. He ensures that the parametric processes and optimization approaches are direct and actionable in order to provide the greatest level of insight. Pattern r+d is looking both at LEED and the future of sustainable buildings and their evolution as indicated by movements such as the Living Building Challenge. ### Visiting Scientist @ Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Freiburg, Germany Developed a method to computationally model a novel façade integrated ventilation system in Python as as a Functional Mock Up (FMU) for client sponsored R&D. Managed 3 collaborating scientists to develop client reports, modeling hypotheses, model performance indicators, unit testing and system architecture. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 ### Master of Science (M.S.) in BUILDING TECHNOLOGY Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### BACHELOR OF SCIENCE in PHYSICS Morehouse College Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Full Stack Web Development Certification in Computer Software Engineering freeCodeCamp Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-street --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelstreetphd JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelstreetphd/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22