# Mitchell Makos

> Lead Software Engineer – Excelling at directing cloud modernization and enterprise innovation projects

Location: Greater Tampa Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mitchellmakos

As a Transformative Software Engineering Champion with a strong and consistent track record of success leading technical teams towards adopting new technology, I understand the importance of good communication and innovation,  in a Garage environment. Being Lead Cloud Garage Engineer with the ability to collaborate with clients’ business and IT stakeholders to solve complex problems, I uphold the standard of implementing engineering team’s best practices, building products and services that best serve customers’ needs. I am a dedicated contributor with a strong sense of innovation and leadership to influence modernization.
During my career, I have sought opportunities to solve unique business issues. A few of my recent successes include: 
•	Enabled clients’ recoupment of $32M in losses from previous engagement, wrote code assessment and security report and presented client with needed evidence on issues with codebase.
•	Succeeded development of call center disposition analysis dashboard that allows insurance users to upload recorded audio files and receive transcription of conversations, conversation and client meta data and disposition of phone calls
•	Pioneered team of 8 developers to modernize the delivery of enterprise POS software to allow customers to save, on average $900,000 and a year of manual installation time

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2023 – Present

### Head Of Engineering @ Auto Approve
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Detroit, Michigan, United States

### Senior DevOps Engineer @ WeAre8
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States

### Lead Cloud Garage Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
Designed and developed multiple cloud / hybrid cloud proof of concepts and application modernization projects for large enterprise clients.

Orchestrated development and architecture strategy for cloud and hybrid cloud solutions using several platforms including: AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift.

Provided in depth technical and development expertise using lean startup and design thinking methodology.    

Led daily standup meetings, iteration planning meetings, client playbacks, and user story grooming meetings.

Built, tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products.

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | East Lansing
Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for creating well-organized project plans

Supervised team of 9 developers for the creation of an internal financial reporting system for IBM Global Business Services

Led an IBM Watson Iot platform development initiative as Subject Matter Expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff

### Provider Contracting Specialist @ Molina Healthcare
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Troy, Michigan


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Healthcare management
Hope College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mitchell-makos-47a5b8126

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Last updated: 2026-03-22