Michelle Hall

Overview

Engineering Manager at Meridian Finance, focused on payments infrastructure. Designed the reconciliation system that matches 8 million transactions a day. Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 569ms to 148ms. Before that: Databricks and Workday. Board member at a local non-profit.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2024 - Present
   Meridian Finance · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 4 million transactions a day.
   • Moved 91% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Backend Engineer

   Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
   Databricks · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Wrote the gRPC service that now handles 39 million requests a day.
3. Senior Backend Engineer

   Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
   Workday · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Grew the payments platform team from 3 to 19 engineers.
4. Backend Engineer

   Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
   Databricks · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Took payment success rates from 95.3% to 97.2%.
5. Senior Backend Engineer

   Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
   Johnson & Johnson · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 6.

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Education

1. Duke University

   BS, Computer Science
   2009 - 2013