Michael Scott Winslow

Michael Scott Winslow

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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I am a Distinguished Engineer / Engineering Director with extensive experience in many…

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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Greater Philadelphia Area

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    Greater Philadelphia Area

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    Malvern, PA

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    Murray Hill, NJ

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    New York, NY

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    Lambertville, NJ

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    Philadelphia, PA

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    West Chester, PA

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    Greater Philadelphia Area

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Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • PHILADELPHIA BOYS GYMNASTICS Graphic

    Volunteer

    PHILADELPHIA BOYS GYMNASTICS

    - 4 years 9 months

    Children

    As part of the PBG community, I have volunteered at fundraisers, competitions, and helped move the entire facility from one location to another. Proud to be a parent and member.

Publications

  • The Dennis Botman Story: A Tale of Next-Level Chatops

    NCTA — The Internet & Television Association

    What do you do when you have an amazing team and you want to make them even better? The 1995 Chicago Bulls added Dennis Rodman. Well, our team at Comcast created Dennis BOT-man: An automated Chatops bot that helped us re-imagine how we support our internal engineering teams.

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  • Conversations you need to have before moving from monoliths to microservices

    LeadDev.com

    Contrary to what some people will tell you, microservices are not always the right decision. Sometimes, it’s more beneficial to stick with the battle-tested monoliths you already have.

    But I am not here to talk you out of moving to microservices. I’ve actually helped lead two large-scale migrations to microservices in the last five years, and in both projects, one thing was clear. We could have benefited from having a few more upfront conversations about the reasons we were moving to…

    Contrary to what some people will tell you, microservices are not always the right decision. Sometimes, it’s more beneficial to stick with the battle-tested monoliths you already have.

    But I am not here to talk you out of moving to microservices. I’ve actually helped lead two large-scale migrations to microservices in the last five years, and in both projects, one thing was clear. We could have benefited from having a few more upfront conversations about the reasons we were moving to microservices. The following conversations are ones I wish I had with my engineering, operations, and leadership teams before we embarked on the move.

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  • (Contributor) 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know

    O'Reilly Media, Inc.

    Story Title: "Damn It, Jim! I'm a Cloud Engineer, Not an Accountant!"

    If you create, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you're a cloud engineer--even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientist, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from around the world provide valuable insight into today's cloud engineering role.

    These concise articles explore the entire cloud computing experience, including…

    Story Title: "Damn It, Jim! I'm a Cloud Engineer, Not an Accountant!"

    If you create, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you're a cloud engineer--even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientist, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from around the world provide valuable insight into today's cloud engineering role.

    These concise articles explore the entire cloud computing experience, including fundamentals, architecture, and migration. You'll delve into security and compliance, operations and reliability, and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more. You're sure to find 1, 2, or 97 things that inspire you to dig deeper and expand your own career.

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  • Change in a Successful Organization: Avoid Complacency by Making a Case for Continuous Improvement

    IT Revolution

    Many organizations often unknowingly exhibit complacency and only incorporate significant change when a crisis or imminent threat emerges. To correct this, we have to explore how to answer the following questions without a crisis:

    How do you create awareness and bias-to-action to overcome organizational inertia to initiate change? How do you transfer awareness and action across all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the frozen middle and down to the everyday practitioner?…

    Many organizations often unknowingly exhibit complacency and only incorporate significant change when a crisis or imminent threat emerges. To correct this, we have to explore how to answer the following questions without a crisis:

    How do you create awareness and bias-to-action to overcome organizational inertia to initiate change? How do you transfer awareness and action across all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the frozen middle and down to the everyday practitioner? How do you transform the organizational mindset and culture to one that ultimately rejects complacency itself?

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Patents

  • Systems and Methods for Service Entitlement Authorization

    Filed 20240146706

    Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for streamlined entitlement authorization. After a new device joins a network, a network device may provide the new device with the option to automatically authenticate the new device for a plurality of services that are available to other devices on the network. A user may choose the option, and the new device may automatically send login requests to the plurality of services, to automatically authenticate the new device.

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  • DJ Boo Boo (trademark)

    Filed US 78263299

    This TRADEMARK application has been cancelled, but there is still a record of it in USPTO along with interesting details and image specimens.

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Projects

Honors & Awards

  • Philly’s 100 RealLIST Connectors

    Technical.ly Philly

    Article: https://bit.ly/2BiBXsI

    What does Philly’s tech community look like and who helps build it?

    In this list you’ll see many different initiatives that these leaders have started and organized, but there’s one thing that unites them: It’s not just about them. In the conversations we’ve had over the years, it’s become clear that they care about their city’s tech and business community, and about leaving it better for future generations.

    Many have had success at…

    Article: https://bit.ly/2BiBXsI

    What does Philly’s tech community look like and who helps build it?

    In this list you’ll see many different initiatives that these leaders have started and organized, but there’s one thing that unites them: It’s not just about them. In the conversations we’ve had over the years, it’s become clear that they care about their city’s tech and business community, and about leaving it better for future generations.

    Many have had success at individual pursuits, but so often it’s the case that they realize they didn’t get there on their own. So now, they’re connecting others to help the cycle continue, whether that’s through organizing a meetup, heading an organization or going out of their way to make sure two people know each other. That’s how communities grow.

    This list was compiled with input from Technical.ly’s newsroom, including reporter Paige Gross, editor Julie Zeglen and CEO Chris Wink. We solicited nominations from the community itself, but mainly, we referred back to our years of reporting on the local tech, entrepreneurship and innovation economies. What you see below is a peek into our source book.

Test Scores

  • Agile: Creating Effective User Stories

    Score: 86%

    Concrete strategies for creating lightweight user stories that truly capture our customer's needs. Recognize common pitfalls that many teams fall into when they first begin working with user stories.

  • Agile: Scrum Development with Jira & JIRA Agile

    Score: 100%

    Having a great idea is just the start, implementation and execution are key. Improve your chances of success by using Agile development methodology and support your efforts with the right tools: Jira and Jira Agile (formerly GreenHopper).

  • Clean Code: Writing Code for Humans

    Score: 100%

    Clean code is the art of writing code humans can understand. You should be writing with the reader in mind! Core clean coding practices:

    1) Know how to select the right tool for the job.
    2) Optimize the signal to noise ratio.
    3) Create self-documenting logic.

  • RESTFul Services in Java using Jersey

    Score: 90%

    Development, configuration and setup of RESTFul web services in Java using the Jersey Framework.

  • Algorithms and Data Structures

    Score: 84%

    Advanced data structures and algorithms used in everyday applications. Trade-offs involved with choosing each data structure and algorithm. Data sorting, string searching, sets, AVL trees and concurrency.

  • Maven Fundamentals

    Score: 86%

    Dependencies, plugins, repositories, IDE integrations, and all the basic commands of Maven.

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