# Randal Michnovicz

> Software Engineer - Backend at Verkada

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/randalmichnovicz

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Backend @ Verkada
Jan 2020 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States
- Developed feature to create videos from custom dewarped views of fisheye camera footage using 3D transformations in Numpy and FFmpeg. Feature enabled approximately $2M in sales in the quarter after release.
- Reduced build times of core Python services by 90% by improving caching
- Collaborated to create a new cloud live streaming system using websockets, fragmented MP4, Media Source API, and concurrent Go code. System improved live video latency from 4s (SD) and 12s (HD) to 1-2s.
- Architected OAuth2 flow and endpoints for internal support tools’ new web interface using Flask, Auth0, and Okta. Lead to adoption by 130+ monthly users and positive feedback.
- Created watchdog system to monitor for outages using live endpoint and browser synthetic tests. Alarms it triggered have been the first to go off during multiple outages. System has been adopted company-wide.

### Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater Atlanta Area
Rehg Lab:
- Developing system to test deep learning action recognition systems using synthetic data from video games
- Designed and implemented video annotation tool for Amazon Mechanical Turk

### Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area
Teaching Assistant for Machine Learning class (CS 4641/7641)
- Organizing TA team to hold office hours
- Helping students in office hours and online Q/A wiki
- Evaluating students’ papers analysing performance of machine learning and optimization algorithms

### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Mulesoft Cloudhub team
- Implemented API endpoints and front end to configure AWS provisioning software
- Empowered support engineers to quickly make changes to resolve internal issues
- Used Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Angular, Jenkins, and JAX-RS

### Research And Development Intern/Co-Op @ Sandia National Laboratories
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Developed data analytics and prediction tool with GUI for time series data
- Enabled users to make predictions with ARIMA regression models and recurrent neural networks
- Used Python, Tensorflow, PyQt, Numpy, Scikit Learn, Pandas, and Statsmodels

### Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech Ubicomp Group (Advised by Gregory Abowd)
- Designed and manufactured 3D Printed micropillars printed with DLP Stereolithography
- Used Python with PNG and NumNy-STL to generate layers to print
- Made robot which creates locomotion without wheels


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
University of North Texas
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23