Michael Fromberger
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fromberger is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable developer tooling and networking infrastructure, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Tailscale in Seattle. He was a technical lead on Kythe at Google, creating language-agnostic code-indexing infrastructure, and continues to contribute to notable open-source projects such as Kythe and Tailscale with work on storage formats, concurrent tooling, and secure networking primitives. His background spans distributed consensus (Tendermint), code intelligence (Sourcegraph, source{d}), and systems-level engineering from filesystems to event buses, evidencing a strong aptitude for cross-language tooling and data-oriented design. Michael pairs rigorous academic training in linguistics and computer science with pragmatic engineering, and he explicitly avoids cryptocurrency-related work, a preference he signals professionally.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Linguistics, A.B., Linguistics at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (19)
vpn10
filetype10
file-conversion10
file-operations10
file-format10
wireguard10
go10
indexer10
fileio10
file-handling10
server10
server-side10
security9
data-storage9
build-automation8
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
kythe/kythe
May 2018 - Jul 2021
Kythe is a pluggable, (mostly) language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 111 commits, 182 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Kythe project's back-end infrastructure, specifically focusing on the kzip file format and related tooling. Their work included modifying the kzip library to enhance file permissions, adding a scan helper function, and implementing a kcd.Reader around kzip files. Additionally, the user made improvements to tools like `pack2kzip`, optimizing its concurrent operation, and updating the Go indexer to support kzip files. These contributions reflect a focus on data storage, analysis, and tooling.
agnosticecosystemlanguage-agnosticpluggableyaml
tailscale/tailscale
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:425 reviews, 1 commit, 35 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Tailscale project, focusing on improving internal networking and security. They addressed bugs, implemented new features such as adding a `Shutdown` method and `ListenAndServe` method to the `safeweb` server type, and refactored existing code. These changes include fixing path issues related to certificate file writing, and adding a utility for string truncation, demonstrating a strong understanding of the codebase and its inner workings. The user also added benchmarks for throughput within the eventbus package.
secureprivacysecurityvpnwireguard
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