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Mike Ascah

Technology Evangelist

Building elegant solutions to complex problems

Experienced software engineer with passion for building elegant solutions. Specialized in web development, cloud architecture, and team leadership.

📍 Denver, Colorado

Career Timeline

A journey through my professional experience, the companies I've worked with, and the technologies I've mastered.

Senior Software Engineer

Your Current Company Remote
Jan 2023 - Present

Key Responsibilities:

  • Led development of core platform features serving 100K+ users
  • Architected and implemented microservices infrastructure
  • Mentored team of 5 junior engineers
  • Improved application performance by 40% through optimization

Technologies:

React TypeScript Node.js AWS Docker PostgreSQL

Software Engineer

Previous Company San Francisco, CA
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022

Key Responsibilities:

  • Built and maintained customer-facing web applications
  • Collaborated with design team to implement responsive UI/UX
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 60%
  • Contributed to open-source projects used company-wide

Technologies:

JavaScript Vue.js Python Django Redis MySQL

Junior Developer

First Company Austin, TX
Jan 2018 - May 2020

Key Responsibilities:

  • Developed new features for e-commerce platform
  • Fixed bugs and maintained legacy codebase
  • Participated in agile development process
  • Wrote unit and integration tests

Technologies:

HTML CSS JavaScript PHP Laravel jQuery

Skills & Technologies

A comprehensive overview of my technical expertise across languages, frameworks, tools, and platforms.

Languages

JavaScript Expert
TypeScript Advanced
Python Advanced
HTML/CSS Expert

Frameworks & Libraries

React Expert
Node.js Advanced
Vue.js Intermediate
Django Intermediate

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Advanced
Docker Advanced
CI/CD Intermediate
Kubernetes Intermediate

Databases

PostgreSQL Advanced
MySQL Advanced
Redis Intermediate
MongoDB Intermediate

Tools & Platforms

Git Expert
VS Code Expert
Linux/Unix Advanced
Figma Intermediate

Soft Skills

Team Leadership Advanced
Agile/Scrum Advanced
Code Review Expert
Mentoring Advanced