Professional Experience Technical Expertise Agile/Scrum Execution
If your startup project serves humanity in a good way, my architecture & engineering services can be had for a song (60% off), plus stock options. I would love to drive your project to success. All good humanity projects are welcome!
Contract Services by Whiskey Row Software
Open AI
I've been using the Open AI platform since inception into the market place. I'm well versed in Tuning for Prompt Engineering, Model Fine Tuning, Assistant Building, and ML mechanics in general. I have worked on AI projects in the past; see resume.
Cloud Native Architectures/Designs/Solutions
For AWS & Azure: 100% serverless (trilateral), event-driven, REST based & Graph QL microservices that support CQRS, event sourcing, bulkheads, Apache-Kafka/Aws-Kinesis/Azure-Event-Hub, Data Lake (streaming & replay logs), JWTs, API keys, telemetry, instrumentation, failover, throttling(queues) and dashboards, all at massive scale! I build APIs with NodeJS for Aws Lambda's & Azure Functions. I also design and build with Docker, K8 and Helm for container based deployments.
Full stack (Angular/Node)
I architect, design and build custom Angular SPAs & PWAs, including custom micro frontends with Angular using module federation (webpack5+) for easy module, route, and component level exports. This means app-to-app sharing between micro frontends (mfe's). I also deploy Angular apps to AWS.S3 & Azure Storage for high performance (low-latency) deployments that use a Blue/Green deployment model for ZERO DOWNTIME. This approach greatly simplifies development, configuration, deployment & rollbacks. I'm also an expert with NodeJS, the MEAN stack, Socket.IO (WebSocket's/Full Duplex & Bi-Directional)
Full stack (Flutter/Dart)
I architect, design and build custom Flutter/Dart apps for iOS, Windows, Android, and the Web. The idea is simple, use one-code-base-for-all-occasions! I know how to migrate teams away from a many-code-base model into a one-code-base model, allowing you to lower tribal knowledge & silos, lower team thrash, consolidate your dev teams, and improve continuity, quality and process. Let's not forget the cost savings that naturally flow from a one-code-base-deployment- model.
DevOps
I use GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, and AWS Cloud Formation for (Infrastructure as Code).
Databases
I was an Oracle & SQL Server DBA for years. I architect, design and build custom Databases using all the modern engines. I currently hold 6 certifications in the Neo4J graph db. I'm an expert with relational & non relational databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, to name a few. Note: I really really like building with Neo4J for reasons that should be obvious. :)
Agile, Scrum, SAFe
I'm an expert Scrum Master with decades of experience running high performance teams that deliver using Azure DevOps, Atlassian(Jira/Confluence), and of course, vanilla Kanban. I also know GitHub, and GitHub Projects for scrum management purposes.
Summary of Services
I apply best practices, design patterns, guardrails, proper tooling, and customized Agile/Scrum methods to your projects & teams in order to save your Enterprise serious money, all while driving down thrash(chaos), team noise, and while boosting velocity, quality & efficiency. I operate with full transparency & visibility.
Full-Stack Solutions
WRS delivers superior architectural & engineering services for clients that need high quality, customized full stack solutions which usually target the following:
- Custom OpenAI bots (assistants)
- Cloud Native Solutions--serverless components (at scale)
- Angular Apps (SPAs, PWAs, MFE's) written in TypeScript / JavaScript
- Flutter / Dart (iOS, Android, Windows, Web)
- NodeJS (TypeScript / JavaScript) for Lambdas, Azure Functions
- .NET Core (C#, VB.NET, F#, PowerShell)
- RDBMS, Graph DBs, No-SQL DBs
- Trilateral, bulkheaded Microservices/APIs with CQRS & Event-Sourcing
- Test Driven Development (jest, jasmine, mocha, spy, etc.).
- Agile/Scrum (Jira, Kanban, Azure DevOps, GitLab)
- Source Control (GIT, Git Hub, Git Lab, Bit Bucket)
- Gated Check-ins
- Feature Branching / Pull Requests
- CI/CD Pipelines (GHA, Azure DevOps, AWS)
- Custom Agile/Scrum Workflows & Webhooks for team notification
We use best-practice-design-patterns on the frontend & backend during development for quality, performance & future extensibility.
Whether it be container based solutions, or, 100% serverless computing (Lambda's and Azure Functions) we leverage both methods to deliver what you need.
We also handle custom integrations, data migrations (ETL & CDC), as well as code migrations.
Did I mention, we don't like technical debt! We can't stand anti-patterns either!
We extinguish technical debt in order to promote a healthy SDLC.
Remember, you can't manage what you can't measure. So, consider allowing WRS to put your project into overdrive, and measure progress by the numbers!
Cloud Architecture: AWS & Azure
Everything from lift & shift solutions, to secure, serverless trilateral event-driven microservices with bulkheads, queues, kafka, aws-kinesis, azure-event hub, and polyglot storage for fast geo-wide operational access. We know the architecture, the platforms, the tools and the components to keep your microservices healthy and operational.
Ask us about Azure Functions, AWS Lambda's, and Docker!
Just imagine how beautiful it will be to run hundreds of high performance microservices (each with numerous endpoints) with full telemetry, dead letter queue processing, throttling, orchestration, choreography, mediation, fail-over, auto scaling, and with the ability to make changes to the stack (deployments & rollbacks) without fear & without down time!
Call us, we'll show you how to use the cloud, how to leverage technology and how to manage it all correctly & efficiently for high quality outputs & success.
You can't manage what you can't measure
We use Agile/Scrum methods to:
- Get to market faster
- Lower execution costs
- Improve quality
- Vastly improve effort estimates
- Minimize thrash/chaos
- Memorialize all project aspects in order to make better decisions in the future
Who is Michael Bowman?
Michael Bowman is a professional cloud-native architect/engineer, full-stack solution architect/engineer, scrum master, and dev-ops engineer with 25+ years of paid professional experience in the IT industry across startups and Fortune 500 & 1000 companies.
He's designed, implemented & deployed huge cloud-native architectures & custom solutions for many clients across America (many with a global footprint; multi geo).
Michael has worked & contracted at places like Boeing, Intel, CNA Insurance, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, PacifiCorp, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Columbia Sportswear, etc., with stellar results. As a contractor, Michael completed 12 projects at Intel Corp. over 15 years!
Michael has a proven track record of repeated project success. He gets projects done fast delivering top quality while busting down silos, optimizing team execution, lowering thrash, delivering the highest levels of velocity & quality, all while saving clients money, making clients money and getting to market faster with top quality results!
Scroll to the bottom, take a look at his resume(s), Short, Medium & Long! While you're there, be sure to read his cover letter and Jordan Peterson personality analysis. Just wait until you speak with his references.
Michael really loves what he does!