Mike Hall

Staff Software Engineer

Experience

Engineering Learning & Development Business Partner

Groupon | Chicago, IL | -

Owned core backend systems for fraud and taxonomy, leading global engineering enablement during hyper-growth.

  • Siloed merchant data was addressed by building analysis tools in Ruby and CouchDB, generating reports to identify high-value markets.
  • Unscalable fraud detection was addressed by designing pattern queries in Vertica and Hadoop detection tools, scaling analysis throughput by 10x.
  • Fragmented merchant categorization was addressed by implementing a centralized taxonomy service in Java and MySQL, reducing categorization drift across product teams.
  • Inconsistent engineering ramp-up was addressed by redesigning the global onboarding program, modernizing training consistency across multiple sites.

Skills: Ruby, Java, Clojure, CouchDB, Vertica, Hadoop, MySQL, Redis, JavaScript, Bash