Michael Browning
City of Peekskill, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Browning is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years building reliable, production-grade infrastructure and data systems across startups and large-scale platforms. He has driven initiatives from Mesos/Aurora-based cluster improvements and central role-based authorization at Uber, to data ingestion, warehouse indexing, and Kubernetes operator refactors at Saildrone, and Terraform migrations and self-service tooling at Aclima. Comfortable in backend systems and distributed environments, he contributes to open-source projects such as uber/tchannel where he improved permission caching and rate limiting for RPC services. Based in Peekskill, NY, he favors ambitious systems built with "boring" robust tools and brings a mix of practical engineering, attention to operational efficiency, and a background that blends music and computer science.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music, Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music, Minor in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
rate-limiting10
rpc10
go10
networking10
test-automation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uber/tchannel
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the implementation of a permissions cache within the TChannel project. Their work involved adding a new `PermissionsCache` object, integrating it with the `ServiceHandler`, and modifying the test suite to include the new cache object. Further commits refactored the cache to use a token bucket rate limiting approach, replacing the original naive incrementing counters. The user's changes demonstrate a focus on improving service access control and performance within the RPC framework.
rpcnetworkingmultiplexingframingtcp
mrbrowning/dotfiles
Jan 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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