Michael Dent
Associate Principal Software Engineer
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Dent is an Associate Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient back-end systems at Cerner in Des Moines. He has progressed through engineering and architecture roles into technical leadership, focusing on reliable distributed systems and recovery mechanisms. A hands-on contributor to the RabbitMQ Java client, he has improved connection and channel recovery logic and hardened environment security handling—work that reflects deep expertise in messaging and fault-tolerant design. Michael combines practical architecture with code-level influence, mentoring teams to ship robust, maintainable services. He holds a BE in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and brings an engineer’s curiosity to production-grade middleware challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (6)
rabbitmq10
javas10
java10
concurrency10
multithreading9
exception-handling8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client
Mar 2015 - May 2022
RabbitMQ Java client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 61 commits, 25 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael's primary contributions focus on improving the RabbitMQ Java client library's recovery mechanisms. They refactored the code to use a custom thread factory within `RecoveryAwareAMQConnection` and `RecoveryAwareChannelManager`. Furthermore, the user updated code to use the system's security manager instead of creating a new one within the `Environment` class. The changes also included adding override tags for channel methods and fixing binding recovery issues.
javarabbitmq-javarabbitmqjava-client
vikinghawk/rabbitmq-java-client
Jun 2021 - May 2022
RabbitMQ Java client
Contributions:9 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
javarabbitmq-javarabbitmqjava-client
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