Michael Hobart
Engineering Manager, Platform at Trust & Will- Claim this Profile
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AWS Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Oct, 2019- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Trust & Will
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Manager, Platform
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Jan 2023 - Present
Trust & Will enables every family to leave their legacy with a fast, easy, and secure way to create and manage their estate plan online. Since 2017, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of families plan for their future with a streamlined and intuitive approach that makes estate planning simple, affordable, and accessible.Trust & Will is backed by leading names in venture capital and is the estate planning provider for UBS, Fifth Third Bank, Northwestern Mutual, AARP, SoFi, and more, who all believe in our mission of helping every family leave their legacy.Get started today: https://trustandwill.comJoin our team: https://trustandwill.com/careers Show less
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Frontend Team Lead
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Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
- Set technical direction for the MANAGE product with a focus on code quality, reliability, and developer satisfaction- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and define technical product requirements with an emphasis on maximizing user value- Make significant contributions to the product's codebase, with a particular emphasis on enhancing mobile responsiveness, accessibility, and system performance
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Katalyst
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United Kingdom
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Staffing and Recruiting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Organizationally, I lead the internal engineering team, responsible for a suite of more than a dozen client-facing products, internal tools, data policies, and infrastructure. Products range from web applications, native mobile apps, 3rd party integrations, analytics/dashboards, and custom hardware solutions. - Designed the strategy for compartmentalizing products, moving away from a monolithic system to a microservices architecture, ultimately increasing fault tolerance and system availability, while decreasing infrastructure costs for scaling. - Built a system to organize and speed up print message routing from mobile devices to printers on clients' local networks. - Strategized and developed tools for internal product and sales teams to decrease friction in the customer journey and increase sales. This included both custom tools and integrations with 3rd party products Show less
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Boston College High School
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United States
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Primary and Secondary Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Web Developer
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Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Scope of work includes managing and updating several organizational CMS’s and connecting those assets with other internal tools and storage. Increased data analysis and visibility through the creation of dashboards and APIs. Ownership of all customer-facing digital assets as well as cloud storage and compute ( AWS, GCP ). - Oversaw the migration of several CMS’s to newer assets as well as connected legacy product APIs to ensure near-zero down-time as well as data integrity and security. - Developed and deployed internal APIs to offer more efficient and secure data transfer, as well as ease of cross-team collaboration. - Researched several abstract organizational problems and developed tools which removed much of the need for manual data entry. - Participated in the creation of the infosec policies and developed the protocols for implementation, organization-wide. Show less
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Dana Hall School
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Primary and Secondary Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Web Content Manager
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Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Responsible for maintaining and developing user-facing digital assets as well as internal tooling and ETL pipelines between third-party APIs, cloud storage, and onsite storage. Focus on research and understanding abstract organizational needs formulating creative, secure, and user-friendly solutions. Ownership of all cloud infrastructure ( AWS ). - Built data pipelines between existing compute and storage to decrease human interaction and provide cleaner data. ( Google API, AWS Lambda, AWS RDS, AWS API Gateway ) - Designed and built forward-facing and internal-facing UIs with a focus on mobile-first, responsive design as well as accessibility standards. - Built, deployed, and maintained cloud infrastructure, utilizing infrastructure-as-code modalities for increased repeatability and consistency. - Participated in mentoring, interviewing, and hiring processes. Show less
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Director of Product & Tech / Founder
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Jan 2010 - Aug 2019
Founded and grew a small apparel and poster printing startup into a high production, merchandising operation, and 3PL solution. Developed bespoke enterprise tooling to increase organizational efficiency using mostly Javascript/NodeJS and Python. - Designed, built, and maintained a microservices infrastructure hosted on AWS, focusing on fault tolerance and high availability. - Developed several APIs and ETLs to ingest and export data to both internal products and external vendors - Designed and built multiple client-facing, vendor, and internal product UIs and mobile apps - Created, deployed, and scaled models for predicting future event inventory requirements for clients Show less
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Education
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2003 - 2008
Bridgewater State University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design
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