Michael Buhidar
Sr. Director Of Engineering - Core Technologies, All Platforms
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Buhidar is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of cross-disciplinary experience in product development, mechanical design, and program management, now serving as Sr. Director of Engineering for Core Technologies at JLG Industries. He combines hands-on engineering roots from aerospace and heavy equipment with executive responsibilities for multi-platform product lines and large budgets, consistently driving teams to deliver practical, production-ready solutions. A lifelong tinkerer and curious learner, he recently augmented his technical repertoire with an MS in Computer Science and contributes to open-source projects—improving Python bindings and documentation for the high-performance Polars dataframe library. Known for recruiting and developing high-performing teams, he pairs rigorous analysis with clear communication to translate complex requirements into manufacturable products. An uncommon strength is his blend of retro-computing enthusiasm and modern data tooling experience, which informs pragmatic, user-focused engineering improvements.
7 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Clemson UniversityBachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (10)
dataframes10
data-handling10
polar10
rust10
binary-data10
frame10
python10
polars10
documentation10
dataframe10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pola-rs/polars
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily involve enhancing the Python bindings of the Polars data processing library, focusing on adding examples and documentation to clarify the usage of binary-related functions like `contains`, `ends_with`, `starts_with`, `decode`, and `encode`. They also provided documentation updates for `Series.kurtosis` and `Series.list.median`, and corrected the default `ddof` for the `Series.list.std` and `Series.list.var` methods. Furthermore, the user improved examples for `Series.binary.encode` and `Series.binary.decode`, along with updates to examples for `Series.search_sorted` and `Config.set_tbl_width_chars`, demonstrating a strong focus on user experience and code clarity.
polarsdataframespythondataframerust
mbuhidar/retro_typein_games
Dec 2021 - Mar 2024
A collaboration repository for type-in magazine games from the 1980s. Mostly Commodore games from Ahoy, Compute, and Run magazines.
Contributions:35 PRs, 151 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 2 months
gamegamesmagazinescollaborationcompute
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