Michael Forde

New York City

Software Engineer | Computer Science @Columbia University

What I work with

Experience

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

May 2025 - August 2025

Conducted a cross-cloud Kubernetes benchmarking study on the AWS Benchmarking team, deploying infrastructure with Pulumi and analyzing performance across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

AI4ALL Ignite Accelerator

Machine Learning Fellow

May 2025 - August 2025

Developed an ESG-focused investing assistant with a full-stack dashboard and machine learning models emphasizing fairness and explainability.

Preuss Lab, Hunter College

Computational Research Assistant

June 2022 - June 2024

Conducted behavioral neuroscience research using computer vision to study zebrafish group dynamics.

Projects

Dine U

Dine U

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Blogs

2025-06-27

My First Month at Amazon

From Carnegie Hall to coding in Seattle, I dive into my first month as an Amazon intern — from onboarding chaos and intern events to dogs in the office and biking to work. Here’s a look at what made my first 30 days one to remember.

2025-04-09

Crafting the Ultimate Dev Environment: My Essential Tools & Workflow

A development environment is a programmer's workspace. It consists of CLI tools, applications, IDEs, packages, and other tools that make a developer's work more efficient. As a CS student and aspiring software engineer, my workspace is configured to: 1. Maintain a clean and distraction-free development environment. 2. Utilize powerful terminal and window management tools to maximize productivity....

2025-04-02

Landing an Amazon Internship as an Underclassman: What Actually Worked

Hey blog, it's been a minute! Hope all my readers are doing well and you're surviving the Spring semester whether you're still taking midterms like me or are already prepping for finals. The last month of my life has been filled with awesome successes but also overcoming rejection. I want to share how I landed an Amazon Propel Program SDE...