Michael
Wickey

Dedicated Full Stack Engineer. I have designed and create numerous Django backends with all of them utilizing Celery, Redis, and MySQL.

Worked with XSLT transformations to extract comments from code to generate documentation using Doxygen. Brandenburg GmbH, located in Paderborn, Germany, is the company behind LucidShape and LucidDrive, which is used to aid auto manufactures in automotive lighting.

Developed an iOS and Android app using Solar2D that enabled users to promote YouTube videos as Google video ads. These ads can be shown as in-stream and in-feed ads on YouTube as well as Google's Video Partner Network.
Designed and implemented a robust Django REST API backend, facilitating seamless order processing between the server and Google Ads accounts.

Burst was orginally developed in 2011 specifically for the iPhone, but after years of no updates Apple finally unlisted it. Ten years later I re-created the app in Solar2D using our in-house game engine.

Led the development of a Progressive Web App (PWA) with capabilities resembling traditional app stores, including single sign-on, in-app purchases, reviews, and search functionality. Github
Developed a Node.js server for server-side rendering of WickeyAppStore.
Constructed the Django backend for APIs to facilitate user accounts, email verification, purchasing, reviews, favorites, etc. and implemented periodic tasks using Celery.
Created infrastructure on AWS to host new webapps as a subdomain on our wickeyappstore.com domain as well as implemented all of the needed AWS APIS to handle this process seamlessly.

Mines of Mars was orginally released in 2014 for iOS and Android using the Solor2D SDK. I added controller support to the game. I helped to port it to Steam. I also helped port it to our new in house game engine. I created the API backend in Django that provides for a total user base of over 1.3 million.

Engineered a horizontally scalable API backend on RackSpace using Apache, Django, and MySQL for an Instagram Like trading app. Successfully managed high traffic, handling multiple thousands of requests per minute at peak popularity.