Michael Bynum
Technical Project Lead at SouthwestRe
Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Bynum is a Technical Project Lead with 11 years of experience blending hands-on software development and Scrum leadership, currently driving delivery at SouthwestRe from his base in Rio Rancho, NM. He began as a developer and has progressed through support, testing, and management roles, championing Scrum adoption and integrating product and engineering teams to accelerate delivery. Technically proficient in C#, WPF, ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, and cloud and security technologies like Azure and OAuth2/OpenID Connect, he also contributes to numerical and infrastructure open-source projects, improving hydraulic modeling and optimization tooling. Unusually for a manager, he continues to contribute backend code and tests—recent work includes Python bindings and performance improvements for well-known scientific and optimization projects—showing a persistent appetite for low-level problem solving alongside team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Github Skills (12)
algorithm10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
numerical-methods10
python10
optimizers10
optimisation10
pybind1110
optimization10
testing10
numpy9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
USEPA/WNTR
May 2015 - Nov 2022
An EPANET compatible python package to simulate and analyze water distribution networks under disaster scenarios.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:933 commits, 23 PRs, 78 comments in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on implementing new features for modeling and analyzing water distribution networks, including adding support for pump outages and working on INP file writing capabilities to enhance the software's ability to simulate and manage disaster scenarios. They modified the structure of the hydraulic model and added support for various valve types. Additionally, they focused on improving the accuracy and performance of hydraulics calculations.
simulatepower-systemsmodeling-toolpythonepanet
Pyomo/pyomo
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
An object-oriented algebraic modeling language in Python for structured optimization problems.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:411 reviews, 1059 commits, 315 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael appears to be primarily focused on developing and testing features related to the "contrib/interior_point" module, which involves implementing and testing optimization algorithms within the Pyomo framework. They are adding tests for the "interior_point" module, updating imports and documentation, and making performance improvements to the KKT matrix calculations. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on numerical methods, algorithm implementation, and testing within a computational optimization project.
pythonnonlinear-programmingstructuredgurobiproblems
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