Steve McMichael

About Steve McMichael

Product: Experience as leader and engineer on a broad set of teams across Search, Mobile app, consumer web, internal and external APIs, and internal Platform and DevOps product areas. Passionate about innovating new or more effective customer solutions through Lean Product strategies.Technology: Full stack engineer and technology leader, leading both frontend and backend development teams. Passionate about scaling platforms through event-driven architectures, domain-driven design, and tech modernization.Process: Experience defining and communicating tech strategies, priorities, and OKRs. Data-driven goal-setting and execution through a Lean Engineering mindset. Expert at leading large, complex, mission-critical, multi-team, multi-functional programs from Inception through MVP and Optimization. Expert at navigating person enterprises. People: Expert at building highly innovative and collaborative organizations. Expert at developing top-performing Senior and Principal Engineers, Directors and Sr Directors, and new managers through strong, 1-1 relationships and intrinsic motivation strategies (autonomy, mastery, purpose). Committed to building more effective teams through proactive diversity and inclusion efforts.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Software Engineering

   Expedia Group

   May 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Head of Search Platforms. Lines of business include Lodging, Air, Cars, and Activities. Supported capabilities include Search Results, Recommendations, Sponsored Listings, Typeahead, and Reviews for Expedia.com, Hotels.com, and Vrbo.com- EG Search API: Air, Lodging, Cars, Activities, and Reviews- Semantic Search: leveraging OpenAPI and ChatGPT- EG Intent: Typeahead, Filters, and NLP- Lodging Selection: Hotels and VRs- Air Search: Flight Search Service and Best Fare Service (GDS & NDC)- EG Relevance: ML date pipelines and ML Ops for all EG Search Ranking- Performance Ads selection, bidding, and ranking platform for Lodging and Flights

Education

• Texas A&M University

  Electrical Engineering

  1989 — 1992

• University of Virginia

  Electrical Engineering, Honors program

  1987 — 1988

• Texas State University

  Math, Computer Science

  1999 — 1999

Skills

• Java
• Web Development
• Rest
• Software Project Management
• Agile Project Management
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Agile Methodologies
• Python
• Web Applications
• Jquery
• Ajax
• Ruby
• Css
• C#
• Spring
• Spring Framework
• Software Engineering
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Software Development