Micah Wylde
Principal Engineer at Cloudflare
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMicah Wylde is a Principal Engineer and former founder with 16 years building high-throughput stream processing systems, currently advancing real-time infrastructure at Cloudflare after founding Arroyo (acquired by Cloudflare). He has led petabyte-scale streaming services on Apache Flink at Splunk and built Lyft’s Flink Kubernetes Operator, contributing production-grade tooling to the open-source ecosystem. Micah combines hands-on backend engineering with executive product experience, having shipped fraud-detection and real-time decisioning platforms at Sift and low-latency ad/analytics systems at Quantcast. Comfortable from CEO to code, he has repeatedly solved operationally critical problems like automated failover, circuit-breaking, and savepoint handling in complex distributed systems. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare blend of startup grit and large-scale systems craftsmanship, plus a history of shipping components that others reuse in production.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
apache-flink10
back-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lyft/flinkk8soperator
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Kubernetes operator that provides control plane for managing Apache Flink applications
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 46 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Micah primarily contributed to the configuration and management of Apache Flink applications within a Kubernetes environment. They focused on improving the rendering of Flink configuration files, ensuring that these configurations are generated correctly. Their work also involved implementing event logging for rollback situations and addressing bugs related to job submission and savepoint handling. Furthermore, the user implemented features to support setting pod tolerations and in-place scale mode.
lyftflinkapacheoperatorapache-flink
mwylde/resume.rb
Dec 2010 - Oct 2013
Contributions:30 commits in 2 years 10 months
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