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Mike Priscella

mpriscella@gmail.com

150 4th Ave Apt. 5G
Brooklyn, NY 11217

github.com/mpriscella

linkedin.com/in/mpriscella

I am a Backend Engineering Manager with more than 7 years as a professional software engineer with a specialty in Drupal.

Experience

Engineering Manager

New York, NY
May 2017 - Present
  • Planned and executed large scale migration from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 which included 400,000+ pieces of content over 5 separate brands.
  • Managed on-site employees and contractors during Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 system migration.
  • Wrote several custom modules for Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 migration, as well as leveraged multiple contrib modules to replace Drupal 6 custom modules.
  • Wrote patches for Drupal 6 contrib modules to enable additional functionality and contributed my changes back to the Drupal community.

Senior Platform Engineer

New York, NY
Oct 2016 - May 2017

Senior Platform Engineer

Thrillist Media Group (http://www.thrillistmediagroup.com)
New York, NY
May 2016 - Oct 2016
  • Designed and built custom content authoring tool that completely redesigned how editors created content and increased editor productivity while maintaining data integrity. Technologies used: Drupal 6, React.
  • Designed and built custom email authoring tool allowing email editors to send user customized emails to 2+ million users across 50+ different cities (with customizable local content) and AB test emails using custom layouts. Technologies used: Drupal 6, React.

Web Applications Developer

Thrillist Media Group (http://www.thrillistmediagroup.com)
New York, NY
Dec 2013 - May 2016
  • Developed several custom Drupal modules, cleaned up codebase, and redesigned our CMS.
  • Wrote the Ansible playbook and subsequent roles to provision our CMS, internal content queueing application, and email analytics platform.
  • Was integral in the move of our cloud service provider from Rackspace to Amazon Web Services.
  • Maintained servers and streamlined deployment procedures using Ansible and Jenkins.
  • Developed and maintained partner feeds.

Web Applications Developer

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (http://www.marthastewart.com)
New York, NY
August 2012 - Dec 2013
  • Developed several custom Drupal modules to support a new site-wide redesign.
  • Worked with shareholders to design and implement new features (including the homepage)
  • Worked with editors to implement new features and ensure the edit tools worked as expected.

Side Projects

Co-Founder and Backend Developer

Cannabis Law Digest (http://cannabislawdigest.com)
New York, NY
Dec 2017 - Present

Co-Founder and Backend Developer

Memery.io (http://memery.io)
New York, NY
2013 - Present
  • Wrote all of the backend logic using the CodeIgniter framework
  • Wrote the Ansible playbook to provision the application.
  • Set up the servers and databases using Amazon Web Services.

Education

Temple University

Computer Science
2008 - 2012

Skills

Languages

PHP, GoLang, Ruby, Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bash

Frameworks

Drupal, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails

Software

Ansible, Amazon Web Services, Apache, Git, Jenkins, Memcached, MySQL, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sass, Solr, Vim

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