Michael Bottone
Atlanta
Summary
Innovative Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience delivering projects through effective problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration. Specializes in developing clean solutions to complex challenges while integrating current cloud services and AI tools to enhance productivity.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Square/Block
Atlanta
04.2025 - 02.2026
- Lead franchise/enterprise platform expansion targeting several billion in GPV; coordinating across 3 orgs and 6+ teams; lead engineering design and decision making; presented strategy and progress to Director/VP leadership.
- Represented the Identity org in cross-org initiatives and helped guide decision making relating to Identity and Auth platform engineering.
- Mentored senior-level engineers and team tech leads.
- Participated in hiring as a Facilitator (leading our hiring decision meetings) and a Barometer (making the final hiring decisions) at the company level.
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
Square/Block
Atlanta
05.2022 - 04.2025
- Led Business Platform team within Identity organization; defined annual and multi-year architectural vision and technical strategy to enhance system capabilities.
- Owned Tier 0 identity services serving 100k+ QPS with 1000s of dependent applications; processed billions of requests daily with 99.999% enforced SLA and zero SEV0 incidents for over 3 years due to architectural improvements.
- Led incident response for major company-wide outages and delivered executive-level postmortems and remediation plans.
- Designed and evolved active-active, cross-region distributed systems and established industry-standard tooling to improve system resilience.
Engineering Manager
Square/Block
Atlanta
04.2021 - 05.2022
- Led Seller Profile team within Identity org, managing 6 direct reports
- Coordinated team planning, developed roadmap, and managed project lifecycle
- Supported Square's global expansion initiative through strategic contributions
- Hired a new team member who contributed for over 4 years, promoted 2 engineers to senior levels, and managed performance consistently.
Software Engineer
Square/Block
Atlanta
06.2016 - 04.2021
- Developed reliable and scalable micro-services using Java, Ruby, and Go
- Built and maintained service on Square's Identities team to surface account data for hundreds of teams and products across Square.
- Worked in the entire product development lifecycle including consulting on product requirements, system design, implementation, testing, distributed multi-DC deployments, and post-launch maintenance with metrics/error based paging and support tickets.
- Led multi-year migration project to rewrite and migrate Square's merchant data from original Ruby on Rails monolith to highly reliable and scalable Java micro-service.
- Designed and implemented system controls for GDPR/CCPA laws
- Collaborated with Square's security teams to implement secure solutions for PII, credential information, and other secrets.
- Developed external developer APIs for external developers to leverage the Square platform to build their own products.
- Worked with large scale monitoring solutions like SignalFx and DataDog to publish metrics and set up alerts to monitor the health of our systems.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Georgia
Athens, GABachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Georgia
Athens, GASkills
- Microservices architecture
- Distributed systems
- Cloud infrastructure
- Architectural design
- Incident management
- Identity management
- Technical leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer
Square/Block
04.2025 - 02.2026
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
Square/Block
05.2022 - 04.2025
Engineering Manager
Square/Block
04.2021 - 05.2022
Software Engineer
Square/Block
06.2016 - 04.2021
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Georgia
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Georgia