Michael Brehm
Principal Engineering Recruiter at GeoStabilization International®
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brehm is a Principal Engineering Recruiter with 13 years of experience connecting technical talent to mission-critical roles across energy, geohazard mitigation, and infrastructure sectors. He blends hands-on oilfield and engineering experience—including roles as an M/LWD Engineer and Field Supervisor at Schlumberger—with a decade of recruiting and founder-level experience sourcing engineers, IT, and management professionals. Based in the Denver metro area, Michael has placed candidates in contract and direct-hire roles and now leads recruiting for GeoStabilization International while running his own recruiting firm. His background in petroleum engineering and practical field troubleshooting gives him a rare ability to evaluate technical fit deeply, and his open-source contributions to the widely used Kodi project (PVR functionality and stability improvements) reveal a continuing engagement with software and backend problem-solving.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (8)
multimedia10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
kodi10
xml9
databases8
database8
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 77 commits, 94 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Kodi media center's PVR (Personal Video Recorder) functionality. Their work involved bug fixes, performance improvements, and new feature implementations related to timer management, recordings, and EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data. They addressed issues with audio-only streams, and improved the channel manager. The user also made adjustments to prevent application crashes and to enhance data integrity.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
zukisoft/tools-llvm
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:278 pushes in 2 months
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