Michael Burman
Senior Software Engineer at DataStax
Finland
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Top SchoolMichael Burman is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and hardening backend and DevOps tooling for cloud-native and distributed systems. Based in Finland, he currently contributes to DataStax after a long tenure at Red Hat working on JBoss/RHQ and Hawkular-Metrics, bringing deep expertise in observability, storage backends, and Kubernetes operational tooling. His open-source contributions include test-driven work on K8ssandra (Cassandra on Kubernetes), enhancements to Jaeger's Badger storage plugin, and practical improvements to Cassandra backup/restore and Istio observability projects. Michael combines backend engineering with DevOps practices—writing integration tests, improving dependency management, and refining storage and authentication integrations—to ensure reliability at scale. He has a strong track record of finding and fixing memory, indexing, and data-processing issues, and of turning operational concerns into testable, automatable solutions. Notably, his contributions often emphasize validation and reproducible deployments, from Helm+Kind integration tests to S3-compatible storage refinements.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Github Skills (38)
unit-testing10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
observability10
python10
apidoc10
cassandra10
testing10
distributed-tracing10
databases10
go-testing10
backup10
go10
api10
amazon-s310
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/heapster
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
[EOL] Compute Resource Usage Analysis and Monitoring of Container Clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 18 PRs, 50 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Hawkular-Metrics sink, adding support for new metric types like "Counter" and enhancing its capabilities. They focused on integrating with Hawkular-Metrics, including the implementation of tag modifications, improved documentation, and the integration of new features, like authentication. Furthermore, the user worked on code improvements such as fixing reference leaks and optimizing data processing.
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k8ssandra/k8ssandra
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
K8ssandra is an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes including API services and operational tooling.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:261 reviews, 78 commits, 173 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on implementing unit tests for Kubernetes templates related to the CassandraDatacenter and Reaper components, indicating a focus on testing and validation. The user also made modifications to the go.mod file, suggesting involvement in dependency management. Furthermore, the user added an integration test that deploys the k8ssandra cluster using helm and Kind, validating its successful creation.
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