Micah Saul
Acting Executive Director - IT Modernization Centers Of Excellence
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMicah Saul is an engineering leader in Portland with 11 years of experience building and scaling remote-first, delivery-focused teams for complex government and commercial products. Currently acting as Executive Director for IT Modernization Centers of Excellence, he accelerates modernization across AI, cloud, data, and customer experience while mentoring emerging leaders in business development and agile practices. Previously he led Login.gov’s application development organization through rapid growth and enterprise-grade identity and fraud solutions, serving as the primary technical liaison to agencies including the IRS and NIST. Micah’s background spans hands-on work on large-scale knowledge systems at Google and practical backend contributions to open-source tooling like the 18F domain-scan accessibility scanner. He combines rigorous operational planning—budgeting, capacity, hiring—with a knack for translating policy and stakeholder needs into pragmatic engineering roadmaps. Collected across startups, consultancy, and federal service, his track record is grounded in making complex, highly regulated systems secure, scalable, and usable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Creative Writing Math Conceptual Information Arts, Creative Writing Math Conceptual Information Arts at San Francisco State UniversityHalf Moon Bay High SchoolMath Theatre, Math Theatre at Lewis & Clark College
Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
acessibility10
acc10
python10
accessibilityservice10
yaml8
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
18F/domain-scan
Feb 2017 - May 2018
A lightweight pipeline, locally or in Lambda, for scanning things like HTTPS, third party service use, and web accessibility.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 9 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Micah primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `domain-scan` repository, focusing on the a11y (accessibility) scanner. They implemented error handling, corrected arithmetic, added timeouts, and refactored code to improve the scanner's reliability and efficiency. The user also integrated the pshtt tool and implemented a redirect and blacklist system to filter and process domain scans more effectively. Furthermore, the user made changes to the configuration files.
accessibility
18F/openFEC-documentation
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes in 13 days
apiapi-platformdata-setsdata-platform
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