Michael Behr
Software Engineer at Google
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Behr is a software engineer with 12 years of experience blending neuroscience-informed research and production-grade backend engineering. Trained at MIT in brain & cognitive sciences and computer science (BS, MS), he has applied signal-processing insight from EEG research to large-scale systems work and currently contributes at Google. An active open-source contributor, Michael has strengthened test infrastructure and interoperability for high-profile projects like Envoy and gRPC, improving reliability and custom metadata handling. Based in Somerville, MA, he brings a rare combination of domain expertise in neural data and pragmatic engineering skills for robust, well-tested distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (12)
data-handling10
http10
c-language10
metadata10
cprogramming-language10
interoperability10
grpc10
meta10
test-automation10
testing10
go9
cnc7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 11 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the Envoy proxy project. They focused on improving the reliability and robustness of integration tests, adding timeouts to prevent indefinite waits. Their work included creating new test matchers for HTTP headers, enhancing the existing testing framework. Additional changes included bug fixes in existing tests, and improving test coverage.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
grpc/grpc
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily involve modifying and extending the gRPC C++ codebase. They implemented features related to additional metadata handling, including the ability to send and parse custom metadata within the interop client. Furthermore, the user refactored and reorganized existing code by moving functionalities from `client_helper.cc` and formatting code for improved readability. These changes suggest a focus on improving gRPC's core functionality and interoperability.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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