Michael Burling
Technical Product Manager at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Burling is a Technical Product Manager and former staff-level engineer with nine years of commercial experience and a decade-plus background in military intelligence and Arabic linguistics. He blends hands-on SRE/DevOps expertise—spanning OpenStack, Ceph, Terraform, Puppet, and cloud automation—with product leadership at CMS after senior engineering and reliability roles at companies like Optimizely, Gravie, and Flywheel. A decorated veteran and cryptologic linguist, he leverages language and cultural fluency to inform technical strategy and cross-cultural stakeholder engagement. Known for automating repeatable analytical and operational tasks, he has a track record of simplifying infrastructure, leading migrations, and enabling teams through training and documentation. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs disciplined, audit-ready thinking from defense and compliance work with a hacker’s curiosity for pragmatic engineering solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Modern Standard Arabic, Associate’s Degree, Modern Standard Arabic at Defense Language InstituteUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, modern standard arabic, levantine arabic, iraqi arabic
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Github Skills (147)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mjburling/beneficiary-fhir-data
Feb 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
mjburling/cfg
May 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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