Michael Barton
Senior Software Engineer at H-E-B
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Barton is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years building and operating high-scale distributed systems, currently driving engineering at H-E-B from San Antonio. He combines deep expertise in Python and Go with hands-on experience running one of the largest OpenStack Swift deployments at Rackspace, which served billions of daily requests and hundreds of petabytes of data. Michael led a Go rewrite of core Cloud Files services that delivered a 4x performance gain and drastically reduced errors, and he remains an active contributor to OpenStack Swift improvements like error handling, signed requests, and replication. Comfortable across devops, storage, and platform engineering, he pairs system-level performance tuning with pragmatic product-focused delivery and mentoring. An often-overlooked strength is his track record migrating and re-architecting multi-petabyte systems — a practical skillset for organizations tackling large-scale data challenges.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Github Skills (8)
error-handling10
back-end-development10
python10
wsgi9
object-storage9
http9
rsync8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/swift
Jul 2010 - Oct 2016
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:252 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael made several commits related to improving error handling in the proxy server and in the object replicator. They fixed a bug in the proxy server to return 500 status code for unhandled exceptions, and updated the object replicator's rsync calls. They also made changes to incorporate new features like configurable WSGI listen queues, added support for URL-param signed requests, and implemented some improvements in container listing.
openstackswift
redbo/hummingbird
Mar 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:191 pushes, 127 branches in 1 year 4 months
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