Mike Hall
Staff Software Engineer
- Location Chicago, IL
- Email mike@just3ws.com
- Phone (847) 877-3825
- Web just3ws.com
- LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/just3ws/
- GitHub github.com/just3ws
Experience
Core Team Lead
Owned platform modernization and open-source transition, leading infrastructure cost reduction in a community-driven ecosystem.
- High background processing costs on Heroku were addressed by replacing Resque with Sidekiq, materially reducing operational overhead.
- Complex and costly data queries were addressed by migrating from MongoDB to PostgreSQL, simplifying the technical stack and improving maintainability.
- Unstable search performance was addressed by upgrading and optimizing Elasticsearch queries, improving search relevance.
- Stagnant proprietary growth was addressed by relaunching the platform as an open-source project, guiding a diverse contributor community.
Skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, ElasticSearch, AWS S3, Heroku, JavaScript, Backbone.js, MongoDB