My name is Michael McTiernan. When I was six years old, I started teaching myself BASIC. Decades later, I'm a full-stack engineer, product strategist, and technologist, specializing in Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby, and UX. I continue to approach programming with the same passionate curiousity I had when I was a child — I am constantly educating myself. Currently, I'm learning more about OpenGL and game development.
I've left the 9-5 for a much more sensible 24/7. I love being able to work with a wide variety of teams and developers. I provide contract engineering and guidance for start-ups and there's nothing I love more than seeing a company I helped get launched and funded.
My client roster includes Yahoo!7, PubNub, NOOK, Mattr, and Trailerpop.
In January 2012, Function(x) acquired Loyalize to offer alongside its inaugural product, Viggle. Since then, I helped develop solutions to power Fango, one of the most popular iOS apps in Australia as well as real-time gaming experiences for the Grammys, NBA All-Star Game, Oscars, and Daytona 500.
Loyalize was an audience participation company that provided white-label services for brands and content providers to engage nationwide audiences during live TV shows, sporting events, and political debates using real-time gaming.
I was primarily in charge of architecting and engineering the platform's REST APIs using Python, Tornado, PHP, Apache, nginx, Redis, and Elastic Search. I helped lead the engineering team to creating massively scalable real-time gaming experiences broadcast live on SPIKE TV as well as creating custom mobile applications for Motorola and Yahoo!7.
Trusted Opinion was a social recommendation engine — a social network that provided users with recommendations from their friends and experts that they trust. I was hired in August 2009 as part of their new American team, tasked with rebuilding the primarily Java-based web-site with PHP, Memcache, and MySQL. After a successful relaunch and high-fives all around, I focused on providing ideas and strategy for new features as well as enhancements and modifications for existing ones.
My work at Percepticon mainly focused on organizing and deploying custom-made web applications for companies such as Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, Babcock & Brown, and Bedrock using Corespin, Percepticon's enterprise technology platform.