Michael Garate
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
Westfield, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Garate is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building production infrastructure and retrieval systems, currently at Etsy after earlier senior roles at LinkedIn and Etsy’s ML and marketing infrastructure teams. He combines backend engineering with DevOps know-how—evidenced by notable contributions to the popular etsy/deployinator project where he restored and extended deployment monitoring dashboards. Based in Westfield, NJ, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability and deployment reliability that helps bridge data-driven features and scalable operations. A Gallatin graduate who studied technological entrepreneurship, he pairs technical depth with product-minded thinking and a knack for improving developer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
hackNYGallatin School of Individualized Study, Technological Entrepreneurship, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Technological Entrepreneurship at New York University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
devops9
sinatra9
deploying9
configuration-management8
destroy6
devise6
javascript6
controller6
font-awesome6
github6
github-pages6
activeadmin6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
etsy/deployinator
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Deployinate!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Michael made several contributions related to the deployment and monitoring of the application. They restored a stats dashboard and added features to enhance it, including the ability to display stats for external gem users. Furthermore, the user worked on generalizing and configuring the stats features with configurable stack renaming, suggesting a focus on improving the application's monitoring capabilities. The commits indicate familiarity with the deployment pipeline and backend logic.
kubernetesdocker
mpgarate/justread
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Minimal web content beautification with Readability, written in Go.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
golangbeautificationreadability
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