# Simon Mikulcik

> Senior Software Engineer Feature Lead at IBM Cloud network

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/simonmikulcik

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead building and maintaining IBM Cloud Network APIs. I graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a B.S. in Math and Computer Science. 

I strive to build systems that last that enable others to build on what I create. In the increasingly complicated world of software development, systems that are based on real and true concepts will last for future development. I love working with talented people to deliver high-quality services efficiently, at-scale, and with long-term usefulness to solve the problems of today for years to come.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ IBM
Jan 2023 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States
Lead 20 developers across 2 geographies to design, build, and maintain over 200 Network Infrastructure REST API Operations.
Promote API first methodologies as the VPC API Tooling architect for IBM IaaS enabling 16 development teams to create and support over 600 API operations.
Lead design, delivery, and implementation of the Cluster Network resource to enable training AI models on software defined networks (SDN) on IBM Cloud VPC.
Managed team project prioritization and maintained high performance of delivery across global team members.
Sponsored, reviewed, and submitted architectural review proposals relating to IBM Cloud VPC Network APIs and upcoming features.

### Senior Software Engineer Feature Lead @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States
- Coordinate global teams in delivering IaaS capabilities to IBM Cloud VPC
- Review and enhance feature delivery process with emphasis on API specifications, Architectural reviews, and auditable approval signoffs.
- Host weekly feature-scrums, retrospectives, and technical discussions
- Respond to customer issues while serving on a Pager Duty rotation
- Provide regular mentorship for one employee

### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States
Lead team of software developers in developing new features and maintaining existing features.
Lead cross functional team of technical focals in coordinating the delivery of several features that impact multiple component squads.
Represented team and feature as focal in cross-team meetings.
Scoped and assigned work to team.
Negotiated requested scope of work in conjunction with other competing priorities and development workload.

### Software Developer @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area
Developed RESTful APIs for IBM Cloud networking APIs. 
Worked with team members to deliver high-quality Golang software for use in production systems. 
Served on an on-call rotation to handle critical customer issues. 
Summarized and presented work to external teams and management. 
Scoped work to be done and divided it among teammates.

### Software Engineer Intern @ IBM
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area
Worked on the continuous integrations team using Jenkins.

### Extreme Blue Intern @ IBM
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### Computer Science Tutor @ Eastern Kentucky University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Richmond, Kentukcy
I work one on one and in groups with computer science students enhancing their understanding of the content in class as well as expanding their views of what is available in the computer science field.

### Math Tutor @ Eastern Kentucky University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Richmond, Kentucky
Helped students understand the class material in College Algebra, Geometry, Calculus I and II, and Linear Algebra.

### Firmware Engineer Intern @ Lexmark International, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Designed Distributed Firmware Testing Infrastructure on a Raspberry Pi array.  I used leading edge technologies such as, Twisted Matrix for concurrent job processing, Django for web development, PostgreSQL for long-term data storage, http-web APIs for inter-system communications, and AngularJS for smooth web interface development.

Worked in Agile development.

Presented technical poster and demonstration at Lexmark Student Symposium.

### Software Development Intern @ Tanager Productions
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Murray, KY
Developed server-side service to analyze database records to find abnormalities.
Collaborated with a sports data provider to integrate current sports scores and upcoming games into the media players.
Improved weather media by updating data provider and cleaning up existing code.
Implemented advertisement rate estimator web app for the iPad and streamlined the calculation of rates to be updated periodically by a web service.
Performed code review and validation testing.
Added firmware enhancements to distributed remote linux-based media players with corresponding web interface to control them.
Worked in a simplified Agile-Scrum development environment


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Double major in Mathematics and Computer Science minor in Statistics and Physics
Eastern Kentucky University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/smikulcik
- GitHub: https://github.com/smikulcik

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Last updated: 2026-03-22