Michael Eager
Consultant at Eager Consulting
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Eager is a veteran consultant with 17 years of professional experience (and decades of hands-on work) specializing in compilers, debuggers, embedded systems, and computer architecture. Based in Palo Alto, he develops and maintains open-source toolchain components—GCC, Binutils, Newlib, GDB, and QEMU—and builds simulators and bare-metal or Embedded Linux solutions for constrained hardware. His work spans low-level systems engineering and practical tooling, and he has contributed GUI-focused improvements such as a refactored ScrolledThumbnail widget for the wxPython Phoenix project, showing fluency across both system and application layers. Combining a formal background in computer science and linguistics with deep domain expertise, he is known for translating intricate architectural constraints into robust, maintainable tooling.
17 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science & Linguistics, BS, Computer Science & Linguistics at Ohio University
English, German
Stackoverflow
308reputation
90kreached
7answers
7questions
Github Skills (14)
windows-gui10
python10
gui-framework10
gui-toolkit10
wxpython10
wxwidgets9
cross-platform9
raspberry-pi6
bugzilla6
linux6
crostini6
forloop6
debian6
gcc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wxWidgets/Phoenix
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
wxPython's Project Phoenix. A new implementation of wxPython, better, stronger, faster than he was before.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the `ScrolledThumbnail` widget, demonstrating a strong understanding of wxPython's GUI framework. They restructured the code, created a standalone `ScrolledThumbnail` widget, and added a demo program to showcase its functionality. Moreover, the user implemented various features to improve the thumbnail display and overall user experience.
wxwidgetspythonmacosxwindowslinux
eagerm/Phoenix
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
wxPython's Project Phoenix. A new implementation of wxPython, better, stronger, faster than he was before.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
wxpythonphoenixfasterfaster-than
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.