Michael Avila
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Carbon Five
Culver City, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Avila is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 13 years of experience, currently driving engineering and delivery at AuditBoard while retaining a long-standing principal role at Carbon Five. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the well-known IPFS/kubo project in Go around provider systems and pinning performance—with team leadership and portfolio management. Based in Culver City, he focuses on architecting reliable distributed systems and improving core infrastructure for scalability and maintainability. Colleagues rely on him to refactor complex queueing and integration points into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. He brings a blend of managerial discipline and deep technical craft, often tackling the backend problems that quietly make systems robust. Outside of day-to-day work he contributes to open source projects that intersect with real-world networking and storage challenges.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
data-storage10
ipfs10
go10
datastore10
concurrency9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/kubo
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
IPFS implementation in Go: a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data, with a CLI, HTTP Gateway, and RPC API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 19 PRs, 208 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael made several contributions focused on the core IPFS implementation in Go, specifically related to the provider system and pinning functionalities. These contributions involved refactoring queue management, implementing a time-based queue, and integrating the provider with the core API. They also addressed bugs and improved performance in the pinning process and announced blocks to the network.
cligoipfsrpc
michaelavila/onebacklog.com
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:186 commits in 28 days
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