I am a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building enterprise-grade applications, backend services, APIs, and cloud-based platforms with a strong focus on C# and .NET development. I design secure, scalable, and maintainable systems for business-critical workflows, user management, reporting, and integration-heavy applications. I thrive as a collaborator across product, design, QA, DevOps, and business teams. I have experience modernizing legacy systems, implementing clean architecture, and delivering reliable production software, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalable backend design.

Mackenzie Young

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building enterprise-grade applications, backend services, APIs, and cloud-based platforms with a strong focus on C# and .NET development. I design secure, scalable, and maintainable systems for business-critical workflows, user management, reporting, and integration-heavy applications. I thrive as a collaborator across product, design, QA, DevOps, and business teams. I have experience modernizing legacy systems, implementing clean architecture, and delivering reliable production software, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalable backend design.

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I am a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building enterprise-grade applications, backend services, APIs, and cloud-based platforms with a strong focus on C# and .NET development. I design secure, scalable, and maintainable systems for business-critical workflows, user management, reporting, and integration-heavy applications.

I thrive as a collaborator across product, design, QA, DevOps, and business teams. I have experience modernizing legacy systems, implementing clean architecture, and delivering reliable production software, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalable backend design.

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Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer at Ecolab
July 1, 2023 - Present
Designed and developed enterprise backend services using C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 7/8, Web API, EF Core, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL to support workflow automation and customer support operations. Built secure REST APIs with JWT, OAuth2, RBAC, FluentValidation, Swagger; reduced API-related production defects by 28%. Refactored backend service layers using Clean Architecture, SOLID, DI, repository patterns, and reusable domain services; improved feature delivery time by 26%. Optimized data access with EF Core, LINQ, SQL Server indexing, stored procedures, Redis caching, and query profiling; reduced average API response time by 32%. Integrated enterprise systems and third-party platforms via REST APIs, message queues, background workers, and scheduled jobs; boosted workflow automation efficiency by 35%. Supported production deployment and monitoring with Docker, Azure/AWS services, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, Application Insights/CloudWatch, and Nginx; reduced recurring incidents by 30
Backend Engineer at Microsoft
August 1, 2021 - July 1, 2023
Developed backend modules using C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 6/7, Web API, EF Core, SQL Server, and Azure SQL for user management, dashboards, reporting, and workflow tools. Implemented secure authentication and authorization with ASP.NET Identity, OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, policy-based authorization, and encrypted configuration management. Improved backend scalability using Redis caching, optimized SQL queries, asynchronous processing, and efficient transaction handling, reducing system load by 24%. Modernized legacy modules through service-layer refactoring, dependency injection, reusable components, and unit testing with xUnit/Moq. Integrated internal and external services using REST APIs, Azure Functions, Azure App Service, and SQL-based synchronization jobs, reducing integration failures by 27%. Participated in code reviews, technical design, testing, and release support using Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Swagger, Postman, and Application Insights, improving release reliability by 22%.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Engineering
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

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Software & Internet

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