Michael Estrin
Go Software Development at Rumble
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Estrin is a pragmatic, hands-on Go software engineer and seasoned technical leader with 11+ years as an individual contributor and 7+ years focused on Go, currently building high-throughput advertising systems at Rumble. He combines deep backend and DevOps skills—distributed systems, ClickHouse, Aerospike, NATS, CI/CD and performance tuning—with a proven track record of turning research prototypes into production (from 1-second live streaming proofs to budget-sharing distributed services). A longtime open-source maintainer for EdgeX Foundry, he’s solved tricky integration problems like removing Mongo types from core models and robust configuration handling in Consul. Michael repeatedly scales teams and processes—introducing agile/Lean practices, career ladders, and governance boards—while remaining teammate-approved for his hands-on mentorship. Based in Austin, he favors practical, auditable solutions that balance delivery cadence with system correctness and durability.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
React, React at UdacityDistributed Systems Design Fundamentals, Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals at Particular SoftwareCarnegie Mellon University - Software Engineering InstituteCertificate, Guerilla .NET, Certificate, Guerilla .NET at DevelopMentor, Inc.Certificate, Client-side Web Programming, Certificate, Client-side Web Programming at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignScience and Technology Commercialization, Science and Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at AustinBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at National University
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Github Skills (12)
consul10
go10
command-line-interface9
configuration-management9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
devops8
database-design7
mongodb7
mongodb-database7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
edgexfoundry/edgex-go
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo | Owner: Core/Support WG
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:181 commits, 194 PRs, 107 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the EdgeX Foundry's Golang services. They implemented a feature to prevent the overwriting of existing configuration values in Consul, adding new command-line flags to manage configurations. Additionally, they contributed to eliminating Mongo types from the models of several core services, including metadata, device and schedule events. The user also made adjustments to address addressable changes to eliminate Mongo types from models preventing blackbox tests from running successfully.
golangmonorepoedgexowner-coreowner
michaelestrin/edgex-go
Dec 2018 - May 2020
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo
Contributions:700 pushes, 171 branches in 1 year 5 months
golangedgexmonorepo
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