Michael Lewelling
Senior Software Engineer @ Slack
- Role
- Software Engineer at Slack
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Lewelling
Experienced developer with a background of working in software development, web development, and information technology. Proficient in Java, Spring, Python, JavaScript, AngularJS, NodeJS, JQuery, HTML, CSS, and PHP. Motivated and creative professional with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Arizona.
Experience
Software Engineer
Nov 2022 — Present
Owned and supported 50+ user-facing and platform backend services across Slack and Quip, handling 1M+ requests/day per service in revenue-critical production systems• Led Tier-1, revenue-impacting incident response for Quip, resolving customer-reported and executive escalated issues and delivering permanent fixes that eliminated recurring incident classes• Architected and optimized core backend infrastructure (Redis, RDS, APIs, async job queues), reducing p95/p99 write latency by >50%(≈1s → 300–400ms), improving throughput, lowering error rates, reducing on-call load, and creating heavy cost savings• Re-designed complex cross-product data synchronization systems (Slack ↔ Quip), eliminating hundreds of manual call sites by centralizing behavior behind shared abstractions• Owned and rebuilt document title and metadata infrastructure for all of Slack and Quip, consolidating 8 storage paths into a single source of truth to improve search indexing, discoverability, and data correctness across teams
Education
University of Arizona
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
2014
Pima Community College
Associate of Arts (AA), Computer Science
2010 — 2013
Skills
- Phpmyadmin
- Javascript
- Php
- Os X
- Xml Databases
- Network Administration
- Customer Service
- Software Development
- Leadership
- Windows 10
- Training
- Algorithms
- Microsoft Word
- Team Leadership
- Json
- Mac Os X Server
- Software Installation
- Windows Xp
- Computer Hardware
- Windows
- Sql
- Troubleshooting
- Web Development
- Agile Development
- Windows 8
- C++
- Technical Support
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Sql Server
- C
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Windows 7
- Powershell
- Windows 8.1
- Java
- Windows Vista
- Ajax
- Active Directory
- Windows Server
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