Micah Woods
Principal Engineer at Mimic
Saint Augustine, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Woods is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience designing high-throughput, real-time systems and a decade specializing in Elixir/OTP across companies like Heroku, F5, and Mimic. He architects resilient data pipelines and CQRS/event-sourced platforms—most recently building a telemetry ingestion pipeline handling billions of kernel-level security events monthly and driving a company-wide migration from Go to Elixir. A pragmatic believer in TDD, pair programming, and UX, he pairs strong engineering habits with delivery focus to reduce support burden and increase reliability. Micah also contributes to developer tooling—having improved the Heroku CLI—and cultivates the Elixir community as a long-time meetup host, instructor, and conference speaker. Based in Saint Augustine, FL, he blends hands-on implementation (Broadway, Spanner, PostgreSQL, gRPC) with coaching and team-building to scale both systems and engineers.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at LSU Shreveport
English
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Github Skills (16)
heroku10
analytics10
cli10
testing9
javascript9
nodejs9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
activerecord6
validation6
sql6
jquery6
deepcopy6
ruby6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/cli
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
Heroku CLI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Micah primarily contributed to the Heroku CLI, focusing on features and bug fixes within the run-v5 and cli packages. They implemented changes to router log parsing and formatting within run-v5, and introduced analytics functionality using the 'backboard' system. These changes included adding properties and tests, addressing errors, and improving the overall functionality of the CLI.
heroku-cliherokuheroku-cli-plugin
mwoods79/dotfiles
Aug 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:53 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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