Michael Brailsford
Software Developer 3 IC3 (Lead Software Engineer) at Oracle
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brailsford is a seasoned software leader with 24 years of experience, currently serving as a Lead Software Engineer driving CI/CD and infrastructure automation for Cloud IAM at Oracle. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, designing scalable automation using Chef, Terraform, Packer, and Jenkins and leading incident response for high-volume authentication systems. Known for shipping practical solutions quickly, he has delivered tooling that eliminated manual ops, led migrations across AWS and OCI, and built an internal LSP server under an aggressive deadline. Michael mentors and scales teams—having run onboarding academies and coached dozens of engineers into senior roles—while remaining a reliable escalation point for distributed systems challenges. He regularly engages with open-source maintainers to unblock production issues and champions pragmatic use of AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery. Based in the Kansas City area and grounded in a BS in Computer Science, he blends deep operational know-how with a track record of driving measurable productivity and security improvements.
24 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Github Skills (83)
vimscript10
bash10
vim-plugin10
fuzzy10
vim10
lua10
command-line-tool10
nvim10
unix10
api10
hyphenation10
cli10
ls10
text-editor10
finder10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brailsmt/clide
Aug 2015 - Nov 2023
Contributions:24 pushes, 7 branches, 1 tag in 8 years 5 months
brailsmt/dotvim
Aug 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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