Michael Brown
Site Reliability Enthusiast at Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brown is a site reliability enthusiast and senior systems consultant with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and remediating complex infrastructure across automotive, telecom, banking, and healthcare sectors. Based in Ottawa and trained in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, he blends deep systems architecture skills (Linux, Windows, storage, IBM hardware, Cisco) with software development and automation to deliver resilient, multitenant network and HPC solutions. He has a history of emergency problem remediation, CI/CD and deployment strategy implementation, and led a startup incubator focused on Open Software Solutions. An active contributor to the popular Discourse open-source project, he has improved SSO and Google OAuth2 authentication and helped harden backup/restore and database portability. Colleagues rely on him for integrating legacy enterprise systems with modern tooling and for turning research prototypes into production-ready services.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo - St. Jerome's UniversityBMath, Computer Science, BMath, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
ss10
ruby-rails10
re-store10
backup10
single-sign-on10
rails10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
ruby10
database-management9
oauth9
ember4
javascript3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Mar 2013 - Dec 2022
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 94 commits, 68 PRs in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Discourse platform, focusing on Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality and Google OAuth2 authentication. Their commits include implementing SSO payload encoding, fixing SSO username overrides, and addressing issues related to user authentication with Google accounts. They also worked on the backup/restore functionality of the platform, improving schema portability and database search capabilities. Additionally, the user made minor front-end changes, such as fixing whitespace in the narrative bot.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
Supermathie/logster
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Log viewer UI and framework for rack
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
viewerlog-viewerracklogging
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