Mac Siri
Senior Developer at Substantial
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMac Siri is a Senior Developer based in New York with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems and site reliability practices. Currently at Substantial after an eight-year tenure as a Senior SRE at Forem, he focuses on automation, efficiency, and durable API and infrastructure improvements. He contributed notable back-end work to the popular open-source Forem project, touching models, API endpoints, environment configuration, and email/newsletter logic. Trained in full-stack development at App Academy and with a scientific foundation from Stony Brook, he blends rigorous debugging instincts with pragmatic operational processes. Mac is known for driving consistency—whether by reducing data entry errors in logistics or hardening production services—and won a promotion early in his career by improving departmental workflows. He enjoys exploring new tools and won’t stop until the bugs are gone, bringing curiosity and persistence to complex engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Biochemistry Biology Chemistry, Biochemistry Biology Chemistry at Stony Brook UniversityFull-Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Full-Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at App Academy
English, Chinese, Thai
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Github Skills (9)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
back-end-development10
apidoc9
api9
email-marketing7
github6
githubactions6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1723 reviews, 500 commits, 3285 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mac primarily contributed to the back-end code, making changes to models and API endpoints. They worked on updating environment variable names, providing sample configurations, and modifying title parsing logic. The user also implemented a code for handling the email and newsletter related logic.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
maestromac/dev.to
Aug 2018 - Apr 2024
Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow
Contributions:62 PRs, 2122 pushes, 738 branches in 5 years 9 months
reactcssjavascriptsharegrow
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