Michelangelo Accettura III

.NET Solutions Architect

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Summary

Results driven .NET Solutions Architect with 13 years of experience in designing and developing efficient, scalable solutions for clients across a wide range of verticals. Experienced in leading engineering teams to meet & exceed complex development goals on tight deadlines. Strong communicator, empathetic to stakeholder needs, all while providing accurate estimations and clear sprint planning. Passionate as a mentor to others, enjoys teaching up and coming developers through tutoring on the side and as frequent Stack Overflow contributor. Determined to deliver results and an effortless experience to the end user by way of clean and elegant code.

Skills

C# / .NET
ASP.NET
Vue / Nuxt.js, React / Next.js
Certified Optimizely Developer
Contentful, Netlify, Vercel
Coveo Cloud / Machine Learning
Git, Azure Dev-Ops, Agile
Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap
Entity Framework, Dapper
Azure Cloud, Docker
Azure Cognitive Services
SQL Server / T-SQL
Cosmos DB

Currently

2017- Lead .NET Developer, Rightpoint

Lead a team in a complete application rewrite for Frontier Airlines. The solution was built with Optimizely and specifically utilized features such as personalization, Find and the headless API’s to deliver a modern booking flow for their customers and a more streamlined content management system for their team.
Architected an Optimizely backed website redesign for the University of California, San Diego’s Health system. Built out custom Yext integrations to facilitate searching across various modules of the site. Developed deeply customized blocks to push Optimizely beyond its out of the box capabilities. Setup various personalization criterions, and set the client up for success with Optimizely marketing tools.
Performed various code & architecture audits to identify security & performance concerns. Proven track record of finding areas of the architecture to improve, and then delivering substantial gains in performance.
Architected highly performant and scalable modules for a massive and complex data migration of a legacy CMS into Sitecore for the State of Michigan. Orchestrated the tooling so that I could leverage the modern API’s of .NET 5 in specific areas while working with the restrictions of the Sitecore API’s in legacy .NET Framework.
Utilized Optimizely Commerce to build a sample ordering website for Azek/TimberTek. Built an integration to leverage client’s existing DAM, also built tooling to synch inventory data from client’s existing PIM.

Previously

2016-2017 Lead .NET Developer, LUX Interactive

Developed custom booking software for Brightline to drive a new luxury rail line experience. Primarily in charge of writing libraries to support different payment types, most of the libraries had to be portable for use in mobile application.
Constructed API endpoints to expose data from the booking system for use in the booking application.

2014-2016 Senior .NET Developer, Enlighten

Primary backend developer for The Henry Ford’s website redesign. Used Sitefinity to manage site content and wrote an API to expose the content to an MVC application, an early version of headless CMS. Helped develop the large content model and implemented smart caching strategies to get massive performance out of smaller hardware.
Developed the backend of a hybrid web application (MVC/Angular) for a OhioHealth using Optimizely CMS. Wrote web services for the front-end team’s Angular components. Utilized the Optimizely Find (Elasticsearch) API for Find a Doctor/Hospital feature of the website.

2012-2014 .NET Developer, Payroll 1

Main project was a public web app for clients to manage elements of their paycheck and personal data. Application was built as MVC SPA, with web services to serve data.
Rewrote the primary LOB console app into a Windows Forms application.

Certifications

2023 Optimizely Certified Developer

2023 Coveo Developer Certification

2020 Sitecore Certified Developer

Education

2013 Associate of Arts, Oakland Community College

Awards

The team I worked with at Enlighten/Perficient Digital, won multiple awards for our hard work on the Henry Ford’s website redesign

2016 WebAward For Outstanding Achievement in Web Development (Best Non-Profit Website)

2016 MUSE Award in Online Presence | Silver

2017 IAC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Internet Advertising