Michael Cacciatore, Developer in New York City, NY, United States
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Michael Cacciatore

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Software Developer

Location
New York City, NY, United States
Toptal Member Since
April 1, 2022

Michael is an expert in JavaScript and front-end frameworks React and Node.js. As a software engineer, he has 7+ years of experience building enterprise-level scalable architecture and user experiences. At Oscar Health Insurance, he led a team to improve the enrollment conversion rate and launched the MVP of its platform while mentoring junior engineers. Michael loves being an engineer and codes passion projects in his spare time. He feels lucky to see his work positively impact people's lives.

Front-endJavaScriptNode.jsCSSWebpackReactNext.jsGraphQLPrismaTypeScriptPostgreSQLPythonMongoDBProtobufgRPC

Portfolio

Oscar Health Insurance
JavaScript, Python, React, Next.js, gRPC, Protobuf, NGINX, HAProxy, Redis...
Goldman Sachs
Java, JavaScript, React, CSS, Next.js, Apache Kafka, Apache, Webpack, MongoDB...
33Across Inc.
JavaScript, Node.js, Front-end

Experience

JavaScript - 8 yearsCSS - 8 yearsHTML - 8 yearsNode.js - 8 yearsReact - 7 yearsGraphQL - 5 yearsNext.js - 5 yearsTypeScript - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, Google Meet

The most amazing...

...MVP I launched with a team of cross-functional designers, product managers, and other engineering teams was Oscar's platform as a service product, +Oscar.

Work Experience

Technical Lead and Senior Software Engineer

2019 - 2022
Oscar Health Insurance
  • Led a team of eight engineers to improve the enrollment funnel conversion rate and how content authors can create pages on hioscar.com.
  • Partnered with cross-functional designers, product managers, and other engineering teams to launch the MVP of Oscar’s platform as a service product, +Oscar.
  • Mentored junior engineers, interns, and apprentices during their first few months at Oscar and drove promotion discussions for those mentees.
  • Reviewed technical design documents for engineers across Oscar.
Technologies: JavaScript, Python, React, Next.js, gRPC, Protobuf, NGINX, HAProxy, Redis, TypeScript, Webpack, Front-end, Web Consulting, Redux, Sass, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Marketing Technology (MarTech), WCAG 2, PostgreSQL, Prisma

Technology Associate

2017 - 2019
Goldman Sachs
  • Acted as the technology lead of the front-end platform team that supported various global teams.
  • Owned widely used applications such as a server-rendered React web framework, a Node.js microservice framework, and a reusable, cross-product component library.
  • Spearheaded the initiative to move numerous Java-based microservices to Node.js, leading to faster median API response times.
  • Facilitated site speed enhancements to provide an optimal user experience.
Technologies: Java, JavaScript, React, CSS, Next.js, Apache Kafka, Apache, Webpack, MongoDB, Front-end, Web Consulting

Senior Software Engineer

2017 - 2017
33Across Inc.
  • Initiated use of automated code quality tools and strict code review guidelines that. paved way for a continuous integration environment.
  • Converted the build process into a stream-based Node.js system using Gulp.
  • Altered the build process to allow use of ES6/ES7 features and TypeScript.
  • Integrated tighter security standards into core revenue products.
Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, Front-end

UI Engineer

2016 - 2017
Advance Digital
  • Served as the lead engineer of the Digital Advertising Division with 800 million page views per month across 12 sites.
  • Refactored the entire ad delivery library for median performance increases of 70%.
  • Contributed to the process of converting monolithic architecture to microservices.
  • Enforced best unit testing practices for my team that expanded to the rest of the company.
Technologies: React, JavaScript, HTML, Front-end

Oscar Health Marketing Site

https://www.hioscar.com/
A marketing site for healthtech startup Oscar Health that is fully configurable from Contentful, their CMS of choice. It is fully customizable to the point where content authors can select their page components, the copy, the images, and even the colors. A full suite of analytics is automatically added to each page as well.

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

Developed and designed the core web framework that powers the entirety of Marcus by Goldman Sach's member experience. The framework is used by teams across the globe to develop features and functionality. I also created the GraphQL service that orchestrates fetching data from a vast array of microservices and delivers it to the front end in a seamless and coherent fashion.

Languages

JavaScript, CSS, HTML, GraphQL, TypeScript, Python, Java, Sass

Frameworks

Next.js, gRPC, Redux

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React, Protobuf

Tools

Webpack, Prisma, Apache, NGINX

Other

Front-end, Web Consulting, Marketing Technology (MarTech), WCAG 2, HAProxy

Storage

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Platforms

Apache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda

2010 - 2014

Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Economics

CUNY Baruch - Zicklin School of Business - New York, USA

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