Michael Snider
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Software engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and developing full-stack web services, APIs, and user-centric websites focused on digital maps and navigation. Recognized for crafting high-quality code, delivering products that enhance user experiences, and mentoring team members with a thoughtful, collaborative approach. Passionate about continuous learning, innovation, and building solutions to assist people.
Software
Senior Software Engineer, Directions
March 2022 - Present
Designed, developed, and led projects for the route services, APIs, and experiences for Bing Maps, Bing Search, Windows, Copilot, and B2B customers
Provided product recommendations with cutting-edge demos for Route Enrichments including weather and grounding metadata
Directed the migration and re-architecture of API business logic and tests to .NET Core on Linux and gRPC for Azure to secure the stack while improving code re-use, debuggability, and performance
Delivered improvements to customer experience across the stack with features like smooth, encoded polylines, and a 67% reduction in customer bad requests
Shipped new features and tools like delayed segments, commute ETA, and route debugger website
Software Engineer II, Beacon
August 2016 - March 2022
Designed and developed device location service and home/work APIs for Bing Maps, Bing app, Outlook, Teams, and Family Safety app
Executed the data migration and re-architecture of Home/Work APIs when data store was deprecated
Implemented and tested near real-time geofence inference for Family Safety app notifications
Prototyped forward-thinking meeting location inference and batch inference support
Supported team by creating location inference viewer website to experiment with signal upload
Developed innovative hackathon projects to solve real-world problems with existing technologies and frameworks: Bring my pet home collar (2nd place Maps + Geospatial, 2019), Find my family (1st place Cortana Skills, 2017), Music ticket bot (2nd place Millennials, 2017)
Internships
Microsoft (2015). Location history for Privacy and Speed Test for Bing
Open Roads Consulting (2013, 2014). Planned events feature, travel time reporting, localization support, and QA website
Designs
Aug - Sep 2023
Designed an app and responsive website for reporting neighborhood emergencies and learning safety practices.
Jun - Aug 2023
Designed a responsive website for voting in an annual game awards event to learn about responsive web design and Adobe XD.
Mar - Jun 2023
