Micah Chalmer
Product Technology Manager, Wealth Management at Comerica Bank
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Chalmer is a product-focused technology manager with 14 years of experience delivering risk, analytics, accounting, and operations software for financial institutions. Currently leading Wealth Management technology, he blends hands-on development experience with strategic program leadership from prior Executive Director roles at JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley where he modernized credit origination, CRM, and marketing platforms. He has a proven track record of translating business language into technical priorities and building orchestration and automation to replace manual handoffs, reducing errors and operational risk. Micah contributes to open-source projects across languages—improving test reliability in the widely used timecop Ruby gem and enhancing cross-platform compatibility in Rust FUSE code—showing attention to correctness and platform nuances. Known for pragmatic refactors and test-first thinking, he also brings an uncommon background in theater that supports clear communication and stakeholder empathy. Based in Dallas, he focuses on measurable outcomes: faster processing, fewer failures, and platforms that scale across teams and geographies.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Theatre, Bachelor of Arts, Theatre at Binghamton University
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Github Skills (40)
test-automation10
filesystem10
text-editor10
static-site-generator10
testing10
timeago10
modeler10
fuse10
linux10
modello10
get-time10
emacs-lisp10
ruby10
sinatra10
editorconfig10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-mode
Aug 2013 - Nov 2016
Emacs configuration for Rust
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Emacs configuration specialist)
Software Engineer (Emacs configuration specialist)Contributions:1 release, 75 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Micah primarily contributed to enhancing the Emacs configuration for Rust code by refining the indentation and formatting of the code. Their work involved correcting indentation issues related to trailing spaces, comments, and the alignment of code elements such as struct fields and comments, as well as enabling multi-line comment support. They added tests to verify the formatting and syntax of the code, ensuring that indentation was correct. Additionally, the user added features such as angle bracket matching, character literal highlighting and raw string support to the Emacs mode.
emacsrust
zargony/fuse-rs
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Rust library for filesystems in userspace (FUSE)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Micah contributed to the `fuse-rs` repository, a Rust library for filesystems in userspace. Their primary focus was enhancing the library's compatibility across different operating systems, specifically ensuring functionality on both Linux and macOS. The code changes involved platform-specific adaptations, including conditional compilation and adjustments to handle OS-specific features like extended attributes and volume renaming. Additionally, the user addressed compilation issues related to Rust updates.
filesystemrustuserspacefuse
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