Mike McDonald
VP, Product at FluidStack
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike M is a product leader and engineer with 11 years of experience building developer platforms, currently serving as VP of Product at FluidStack in Austin. He previously led product at Crusoe and was a Staff Product Manager at GitHub where he shipped the Codespaces API and CLI and led major Dependabot migrations. Mike pairs hands-on engineering (contributions to GitHub CLI, Firebase iOS libraries, Parse GCS adapter and node websocket work) with strategic product work to deliver IaaS primitives—VMs, storage, networking, control planes—and AI training/inference pipelines. He also taught a university course on product management and advises pre-seed startups, showing a strong bent for mentorship and early-stage product/market fit. Outside of work he’s a motorsports, whisky, watch and mountain enthusiast, reflecting a taste for precision and high-performance systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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firebase-authentication
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Github Skills (56)
github-cli10
git10
firebase-security10
google-cloud-firestore10
google-cloud-platform10
ui-d10
node-js10
javascript10
objective-c10
ios10
back-end-development10
websocket10
ui-design10
gcp10
google-cloud-storage10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/FirebaseUI-iOS
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
iOS UI bindings for Firebase.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:13 releases, 107 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the development of the FirebaseUI-iOS library. Their commits focused on implementing and refining core components of the library, including the `FirebaseArray` and `FirebaseTableViewDataSource` classes. The changes involved adding, modifying, and refactoring header and implementation files, including bug fixes and performance improvements. These changes included code for authorization (login) and for adding features such as collection views.
firebaseiosfirestoreios-ui
firebase/quickstart-ios
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Firebase Quickstart Samples for iOS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike's commits primarily involve the development and modification of iOS application code within the Firebase quickstart samples. They are responsible for setting up and implementing Firebase features, including database integration and user interface updates. The user made changes to files related to database functionality, bridging headers, and application delegates, showcasing their work on core application logic and integration. The commits also incorporate updates for Google Sign-In, App Invites, and push notifications, indicating a focus on implementing various Firebase features within the iOS app.
firestorefirebaseremote-configfirebase-storageios
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