Michael Dye
Principal Software Engineer - PaaS at DigitalOcean
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Dye is a Principal Software Engineer and architect with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, observable infrastructure and PaaS systems from Boulder, Colorado. He has led platform engineering and observability initiatives at DigitalOcean and IBM Cloud, architecting mission-critical control planes, high-throughput data pipelines, and SmartNIC SDN telemetry services. Michael blends hands-on systems design, automation, and testing with mentorship and cross-team collaboration to improve reliability, testability, and incident response. He has deep experience with streaming transformation, big-data denormalization for SRE tooling, and introducing AI tooling to accelerate engineering while preserving quality. A former instructor in data engineering, he brings a logical, teaching-oriented approach—rooted in a BA in Philosophy/Logic—to translating complex distributed systems into maintainable architectures. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectural reviews that balance operational realities with long-term scalability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBA, Philosophy / Logic, BA, Philosophy / Logic at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (116)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
michaeldye/coursework
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 59 branches in 9 months
michaeldye/mids-mumbler
Jun 2015 - Jun 2019
Akka-based implementation of Mumbler for MIDS Scaling Up! homework
Contributions:4 releases, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years
scalascalingmidsakka
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