# Michael Topmiller

> Software Engineer at Avaya

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaeltopmiller

I’m a full-stack software engineer with deep experience in React, Angular, and Node.js. I’ve built and maintained enterprise-grade applications across web, mobile, and progressive platforms, including SPAs and PWAs. I’m also familiar with back-end frameworks like Python/Django and PHP. My focus is on building scalable, high-performance applications using the MERN and MEAN stacks.

Technical Toolbox:

Languages:
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript

Front-End Frameworks & Libraries:
React, Angular, jQuery, React Native

Back-End & APIs:
Node.js, Express.js, Python (Django, Flask), GraphQL, Socket.IO

Databases:
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite

Tools & Workflow:
GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Asana, Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop

Testing Frameworks:
Jest, Enzyme, Cypress, Playwright

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ Avaya
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior React Developer @ Edify
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer IV @ Everi Holdings Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer I @ Everi Holdings Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Utilized Angular with Typescript to create reusable yet customizable user interfaces for casino floor kiosks for our 50+ global clients
- Collaborated on a global team in an agile environment to efficiently produce 4-5 new kiosk interface UIs per month
- Helped redesign our PTS legacy codebase to effectively interact with an Angular SPA to handle millions of casino patron accounts and activity

### Software Developer @ SUPERBALIFE INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Contributed to a React/NodeJS telehealth platform for users to obtain prescription medications
- Added end-to-end Cypress testing throughout the platform
- Helped build out a NextJS repository to separate out public and private sections of the platform in order to help streamline marketing techniques and business concerns

### Software Developer @ Actovos Consulting Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote
• Served as a full-stack developer on various development projects, including work on HeyDoctor's web app and mobile app
• Utilized modern design principles and organizational structure to develop 
enterprise-level applications 
• Helped develop the Actovos flagship product: a foster care system platform aimed at placing foster children twice as fast as typical legacy government systems
• Built UI/UX components using Storybook, Abstract design system, and styled-components

### Software Engineer @ AMP Agency
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Served as a React front-end developer on two agency projects:

1. E-commerce re-platform for a high-end Korean sunglasses brand:
• Built a dynamic SPA with React, GraphQL, and Apollo Client
• Worked in tandem with Backend Developers to integrate GraphQL as the layer between the CMS and frontend application
•Utilized React Context API and built UI/UX components such as carousels and page animations

2. Accounting/Budgeting website:
• Built a complex accounting software service utilizing React with Redux Saga for state management, hooked into a Python/Django backend API
• Implemented Ag-Grid, an excel-based library to facilitate proper accounting practices 
• Leveraged Styled-Components and Storybook for elegant design

### Software Developer @ Freelance
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Web/app development utilizing React/Redux, MongoDb, and React-Native

### Teaching Assistant @ Coding Dojo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Burbank, California
• Assisted instructors by helping students troubleshoot and debug code
• Demonstrated key web development concepts in Python/Django, MEAN, and Ruby on Rails stacks

### Case Analyst @ Western & Southern Financial Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cincinnati, Ohio
• Processed and approved 20-25 complex contract and policy changes daily, helping achieve our service level agreements each week
• Policy changes included conversions, reinstatements, face amount increases, add and cancel riders, add and cancel benefits, loans, surrenders, partial surrenders, etc., for Fixed, Variable and Indexed Life insurance contracts utilizing various administrative systems
• Interacted with Senior Case Analysts and other departments to complete transactions in an expedient manner
• Conversed via phone/email with 50 clients per day working to fulfill client requests and resolve contract problems

### ESL Instructor @ CHUNGDAHM Learning
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Seoul, Korea
• Ensured the effective delivery of English language instruction through proper planning and engaging communicative approach
• Instructed 70+ EFL and ESL students, ages ranging from elementary to high school
• Facilitated a disciplined learning environment that propelled my students to attend very prestigious Korean high schools after graduation
• Attended all necessary and optional curriculum meetings with other instructors, in order to maintain a uniform and well-structured educational approach for our students


## Education
### Certificate of Completion in Full-Stack Web Development
Coding Dojo

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Northern Kentucky University

### Semester Abroad in Spanish Language and Literature
Universidad de León

### Study Abroad
Sookmyung Women's University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29