Michael Furtak
Software Engineer at Digits
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Furtak is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable developer tooling and mobile infrastructure, currently contributing at Digits from Malden, MA. He has deep expertise in crash reporting and release automation from roles at Google and Twitter working on Crashlytics, and has practical build-and-release chops shown by notable contributions to the widely used fastlane project. Michael blends mobile (iOS) development with automation and CI/CD engineering, fixing tricky git/tagging and changelog issues and improving test coverage and core clarity. His background spans startups and large tech firms as well as consulting, giving him a pragmatic, system-level view of shipping products. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Japanese from Hamilton College, reflecting an unusual combination of technical and cross-cultural skills.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Japanese, BA, Computer Science, Japanese at Hamilton CollegeW.C. Mepham High School
Japanese
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Github Skills (15)
automation10
automations10
ios10
automation-testing10
fastlane10
ruby9
mobile9
git8
cicd7
cucumber6
xcode6
rspec6
jquery6
rvm6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fastlane/fastlane
Nov 2015 - May 2017
🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS) & Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Mobile Developer (iOS) & Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:13 releases, 470 commits, 824 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the automation and build process for iOS applications using the fastlane framework. They modified code related to the Crashlytics Beta upload process, corrected references within the fastlane core and UI, and addressed issues in actions related to version bumping and testing. The user also focused on fixing git-related issues, particularly those involving changelog generation and tag names. Additionally, they added new test cases and refactored code to improve clarity within the fastlane core codebase.
fastlaneandroid-appsappsdeploymentreact-native
fastlane-old/scan
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
The easiest way to run tests of your iOS and Mac app
Contributions:9 releases, 11 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
testingmac-appmaciosxctest
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