Michael Gaare
Technical Lead - Blockchain Product at DRW
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gaare is a Technical Lead specializing in blockchain products with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, and high-performance backends. He blends deep functional programming expertise in Clojure with practical engineering leadership across startups and enterprises, having led teams through re-architectures, cloud migrations, and Kubernetes-based deployments. His track record includes dramatic performance and reliability gains—such as a 1000% API performance improvement and 99% error reduction—and measurable cost savings from pragmatic cloud optimizations. Comfortable hands-on in multiple stacks (Python, TypeScript, Java, C#) and data technologies (Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch), he moves fluidly between architecture, DevOps, and product delivery. Based in Miami, he brings a rare combination of music conservatory training and technical rigor, which surfaces in thoughtful, design-oriented problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Opera, Opera at Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Github Skills (67)
decoding9
embedded-kafka9
polyline9
uri8
planet8
encoding8
datomic8
spring-initializr8
sink7
extractor7
spring-boot7
coda7
aws-parameter-store7
extraction7
eclipse6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PureFnOrg/sqlium
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
A flexible, Datomic-inspired, config-driven Extraction system (big E in ETL)
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
extractionconfig-drivenetlconfigschema-migrations
PureFnOrg/embedded-kafka
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
An embedded kafka broker and zookeeper server
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
sinkbrokerzookeeperconnectorembedded
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