Michael Bolot
Senior Staff Software Engineer at GEICO
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Bolot is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Fort Worth, Texas with four years of focused experience building secure, cloud-native systems and APIs. He has led API and frameworks teams at SUSE, architected Rancher's public API, and contributed substantive back-end and DevOps improvements to the widely used open-source Rancher container management platform, including RBAC, node metrics, and catalog cleanup work. Prior roles at State Farm involved designing security tooling for AWS, automating CI/CD, and building Kubernetes-hosted alerting systems, demonstrating a strong practical grip on cloud security and observability. Now at GEICO, he continues to blend hands-on engineering with leadership in production-grade infrastructure and security. Michael pairs a master's in cybersecurity with a history of translating security research into production features—an example being his early algorithm energy-use analysis on mobile devices—bringing both academic rigor and pragmatic delivery to distributed systems.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cybersecurity, Master's degree Cybersecurity at The University of Dallas
Github Skills (10)
rbac10
kubernetes10
orchestration10
go10
orchestra10
back-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
container9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:864 reviews, 133 commits, 214 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and configuration of the Rancher platform. They focused on improving RBAC fleet handling and handling group subjects. The user also worked on adding node metrics view capabilities, specifically modifying default permissions for cluster members. They also made upgrades to the underlying wrangler version and improved the clean-up process for the catalog bindings.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
MbolotSuse/charts
Jan 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:55 pushes, 41 branches in 2 years 4 months
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