Michael Brown
Staff Technical Program Manager, Scalability And Reliability at AlphaSense
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brown is a Staff Technical Program Manager focused on scalability and reliability with 15+ years of hands-on QA/QE/SDET experience across enterprise data and analytics platforms. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends technical leadership with deep test engineering chops—building automated end-to-end, load, and performance frameworks (Python, Helm, CircleCI, Grafana, Terraform) and running teams that simulate customer-like scenarios to prevent incidents. He has driven platform-wide performance and capacity initiatives at Domino Data Lab and contributed upstream to Apache Impala's testing and build infrastructure as a recognized committer. Michael pairs full-stack test automation (from Electron front-end Spectron tests to backend and DevOps improvements) with pragmatic program management to reduce release risk and cost. Notably, his open-source work includes integration and test enhancements for brimdata projects and improving Impala’s minicluster and NTP processes, reflecting a knack for fixing brittle infra that other teams rely on. He is a Georgia Tech computer science graduate who prefers solving “needle-in-a-haystack” performance problems and turning them into repeatable engineering practices.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (25)
python10
testing10
cicd10
go10
devops10
impala10
test-automation10
javascript9
markdown9
dockers9
bash9
docker9
markdown-it9
documentation9
paramiko8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brimdata/zui
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Zui is a powerful desktop application for exploring and working with data. The official front-end to the Zed lake.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 296 commits, 97 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on integration tests using Spectron. Their work involved installing and integrating Spectron with the existing code base, adding various integration tests. They also refactored the tests, optimized their execution and added additional test cases and data attributes to the elements.
desktop-applicationreactdataelectronstructured
apache/impala
Mar 2017 - Feb 2019
Apache Impala
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to improving the Apache Impala project's testing infrastructure and build process. Their work included addressing dependency issues, such as requiring users to install Paramiko and Fabric for extended testing. They also enhanced the testing framework by fixing issues with TPC query loading and expanding Kudu support. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the NTP synchronization process and addressed issues related to minicluster process detection.
apache-impalaparquetolapsqlapache
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