Michael Englehorn
President at Xcelor8
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Englehorn is a seasoned networking and systems leader with 12 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure across enterprise and small-business environments. As President of Xcelor8 and former Network Engineer at Johnson Brothers Liquor Co, he blends hands-on network administration expertise (VMware, Cisco, Arista, Ruckus) with procurement and equipment lifecycle management. His background spans support through DevOps roles at Voyant, demonstrating an ability to move from troubleshooting to automation and platform improvements. An active open-source contributor, he enhances practical Python utilities—most notably adding API integrations and database features to the CloudBot IRC project—to streamline operations and external data access. Based in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, he pairs technical depth with governance experience from non-profit board service, bringing pragmatic leadership to cross-functional teams. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex infrastructure needs into maintainable, cost-effective solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
John F. Kennedy High SchoolComputer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering at Normandale Community College
Github Skills (8)
apim10
databases10
irc-bot10
database-api10
api10
python10
mysql10
database10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
CloudBotIRC/CloudBot
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
CloudBot - The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC Bot!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 comment in 10 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the CloudBot IRC bot by incorporating new plugins and features. Their contributions included forking plugins for a project named TCM-Bot and implementing new commands within the existing codebase, specifically for interacting with external APIs for retrieving data. They also added features for interacting with a database, and adding API calls for the FCC and Spotify. These modifications extended the bot's capabilities, making it more versatile.
irc-botpythonbotpython3expandable
K0HAX/homeassistant-mode
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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