Project Manager

Michael Galas

Full Stack Software Engineer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Full Stack Engineer with 6 years building enterprise .NET and Angular applications for 200K+ users. Advanced AI-assisted development practitioner — daily GitHub Copilot and prompt engineering user. Delivered a $300K cost-saving integration and a 300% QA efficiency gain. Azure certified (AZ-900).

SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Languages: C#, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Python, HTML5, CSS3

Frameworks & Libraries: ASP.NET MVC 4.5.2+, .NET 9, Angular 20, AngularJS, NgRx, jQuery, xUnit, Kendo Grid, Stripe

Databases & ORM: Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, T-SQL, LINQ, Entity Framework Core, Fluent API

AI & Developer Tools: GitHub Copilot (Advanced), Prompt Engineering, LLM-assisted refactoring & unit test generation, Postman

Cloud & DevOps: Azure App Service, Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps CI/CD, TeamCity, Octopus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Full Stack Software Engineer Xerox Corporation August 2024 – April 2026

•Developed full stack features on a legacy .NET 4.7.2 application serving 200,000+ global customers within an Agile Scrum team using Azure DevOps.

•Integrated Auth0 authentication end-to-end, designing a new C# API endpoint and coordinating the JavaScript front-end to consume it securely.

•Greenfield development of an internal .NET 8 diagnostic tool that improved QA response time by 300% by surfacing downed service endpoints in real time.

•Delivered OAuth integrations with Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, enabling customers to upload scanned Xerox documents directly to cloud storage — built new C# services, SQL schema changes, and jQuery UI end-to-end, deployed via Azure DevOps CI/CD.

· Leveraged GitHub Copilot and Claude AI to accelerate enterprise API development, reduce implementation time, and streamline troubleshooting for Xerox EIP cloud integration projects.

Software Engineer Waste Connections March 2022 – July 2024

•Maintained and extended a .NET web application managing 8,000,000+ customer records using C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET 6, Angular, jQuery, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and EF Core.

•Saved the company $300,000 over three years by architecting a new RESTful C# API enabling a critical third-party integration, eliminating the need for a costly vendor solution.

•Developed backend services and REST APIs integrated with Azure Cosmos DB for handling semi-structured operational data and asynchronous processing workflows.

•Developed Power BI dashboards and operational reporting solutions using SQL Server and PostgreSQL datasets to support customer operations, API monitoring, and business workflow analytics.

•Led Angular 7 17 upgrade for a nationally deployed application, eliminating 90% of known security vulnerabilities and modernizing the front-end architecture.

•Secured user registration flow by implementing JWT tokens with expiration, replacing a legacy auth mechanism using C#.

•Built a multi-file upload API integrating with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage; authored T-SQL schema migrations and configured DbContext using Fluent API.

•Created interactive Power BI visualizations and automated reporting workflows for tracking customer activity, backend service performance, and operational KPIs across enterprise applications.

•Analyzed application logs and operational metrics using Kusto Query Language (KQL) and Azure monitoring tools to troubleshoot production issues, improve API performance, and support reporting requirements.

•Applied GitHub Copilot and prompt engineering daily to accelerate backend development, auto-generate unit tests with xUnit, and systematically refactor legacy code — demonstrably reducing cycle time.

Software Engineer KeHE Distributing February 2021 – November 2021

•Built modules and components for a B2B e-commerce microservices platform (AWS) serving grocery chains and suppliers using Angular 7, TypeScript, C#, .NET Core 3.1, EF Core, and MS SQL.

•Visualized large datasets with Kendo Grid by creating Angular components and services wired to RESTful APIs via the NgRx lifecycle.

•Improved rendering performance by engineering a custom pure pipe in TypeScript, reducing unnecessary change-detection cycles on data-heavy grids.

EDUCATION

Software Engineering Certificate The Tech Academy – Portland, OR October 2018 – June 2019

•Completed 800+ hours of hands-on programming covering C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and SQL.

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