Patrick Michaelsen

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About Patrick Michaelsen

As of 2024, Patrick works at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer for Amazon Customs designing tools for customers to customize handmade products on Amazon.com. He had a previous role as a Software Engineer and team lead UX designer at American Express. He holds a Bachelors in Computer Science with a Focus in Software Engineering from Arizona State University. His preferred language and framework is Typescript and React of which he has seven years experience dating back to 2017. Excels in public speaking, cross team collaboration, and communication. Effective at knowledge sharing. Writes comprehensive documentation (wikis, internal stack overflow). Supports other devs. Meeting leadership. Fosters employee engagement. Effective at influencing peers. Vocally critical. Problem solving. Leadership. Attention to detail. Critical thinking/problem solving. Interpersonal skills/teamwork. Industry knowledge: Operational excellence (on call duties). Monorepo build tools. Open source library development. Experience with Metrics, monitors, alarms and dashboards. Big data jobs. Change management. Internationalization. A/B testing, experiments, and dial up launches. Python version migrations. UX design expertise. Automation. Greasemonkey/Tamper monkey. Distributed software. Webapp performance optimization. Service call retries and backoffs- In my free time, I spend time working on my blogging tool in Typescript/React.