Micah Cooper
Principle Software Engineer at Heroku
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarMicah Cooper is a principal software engineer based in Chicago with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering teams at Heroku and earlier shops like Hashrocket and Optigen. He’s progressed from hands-on engineering to front-end leadership and now architectural and delivery responsibilities, combining practical coding instincts with people-first management. Known simply for “liking to make things,” he favors shipping polished, user-focused products and mentoring engineers to do the same. Micah’s long tenure at Heroku reflects deep expertise in cloud platform patterns and developer tooling, and his playful past description “Eat code” hints at a pragmatic, work-in-code approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (68)
vscode-debugger10
heroku-cli10
heroku10
lwc10
salesforcedx10
salesforce10
cli10
lightning10
npm-cli10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
salesforce-developers10
apex10
vscode10
buildpack10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mrmicahcooper/ecto_jsonapi
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 76 pushes in 2 years 9 months
mrmicahcooper/ecto_query_string
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
A simple DSL for creating ecto queries with a query string syntax
Contributions:91 commits, 5 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 years 9 months
querystringdslelixirquery-string
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