Micah Thompson is a Senior Data Analyst with 11 years of experience applying technology and analytics to improve outcomes for colleges, universities, and their students. Based in Charlotte, he combines hands-on data work at Liaison with practical education-facing experience from roles in student advising and program coordination, giving him a rare blend of technical and frontline higher-ed perspective. He holds an MBA and a Business Analytics certificate from Robert Morris University and has explored AI business applications through a fellowship at Perplexity. Micah also contributes backend improvements to open-source projects like Mattermost, demonstrating an attention to server-side reliability and efficient error handling beyond typical analyst duties. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex data into actionable programs that drive student engagement and institutional value.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Robert Morris University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration at University of New Haven
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 21 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Micah primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Mattermost platform. Their commits focused on migrating existing functions to be synchronous by default, specifically within the team, user access token, and status store components. They also made code adjustments related to error handling, removed unnecessary code blocks, and performed code formatting. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the efficiency and reliability of the server-side operations within the Mattermost ecosystem.
Open source Slack-alternative in Golang and React - Mattermost
Contributions:42 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
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