Michael Ibarra

Objective

Passionate about code. Loves a challenge. Dedicated to delivering quality software, building strong teams, and finding better ways of doing both. Committed to "SOLID" software design principles, test first-development and pair programming as a means of delivering quality, maintainable code and encouraging others do the same.

Experience

Senior Software Developer and Principal at Bm2yogi, LLC (Dec 2012 - Present)
Works alongside software development teams, managers and stakeholders to design and develop custom software, help them embrace and apply Lean/Agile principles and practices and improve their code quality and resiliency through the application of solid software design principles and effective development disciplines. Avalara, Inc - Designed and delivered a SOA-based internal web application and web services to automate the monthly process of validating, funding and reconciling clients' tax returns with existing back-end and external components. Provided valued insight and input towards the improvement of their agile practices and code quality.

Senior Software Engineer at Getty Images (May 2010 - Dec 2012)
Worked with a stellar group of team members on Getty Images’ ThinkstockPhotos.com, JupiterImages.com web sites. Now works with a similarly stellar crew on Getty Images SOA team. Led weekly team meetings focused on improving code quality and spreading adoption of Lean / Agile practices across development teams. Employs development practices of Acceptance Test Driven Development, Pair programming, and Kanban. Technologies used include MVC3 and WCF in C#, jQuery, Scss and Git DVCS

Software Engineer at Parametric (Jul 2008 - Apr 2010)
Employed Agile / Scrum techniques to develop and maintain proprietary securities trading and investment portfolio management and reporting software using Visual Studio, C#, XML, MSSQL Server, WinForms, ASP.Net, WCF Services and MSMQ. Occasionally delivered technical presentations on emerging technologies.

Web Applications Developer at PEMCO Insurance (Jan 2017 - Jan 2017)
Employed XP methodology and Test-Driven Development to help Pemco Insurance Company re-engineer their existing mission-critical home and auto insurance software system using Visual Studio, C#, XML, MSSQL Server, IBM DB2. Wrote internal tools to search SQL databases for policies, automate build and continuous integration processes.