Michael Gecht
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Gecht is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, efficient distributed systems and site reliability platforms, currently at Apple in London. He brings a rare hybrid of deep research training—having been a PhD student and project lead at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics—and hands-on production SRE and engineering practice, which informs his emphasis on well-documented, user-centric solutions. Known for reducing operational toil through automation, he mentors teams to improve engineering culture and delivery quality. A lifelong tinkerer who pairs deliberate study with practical experimentation, he leverages his background in biochemistry and molecular biology to approach systems problems with analytical rigor and curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree Biochemistry, Doctor's Degree Biochemistry at Goethe University FrankfurtMobile Web Specialist Nanodegree, Mobile Web Specialist Nanodegree at UdacityMolecular Biology, Molecular Biology at Weizmann Institute of ScienceAllgemeine Hochschulreife Biotechnology, Allgemeine Hochschulreife Biotechnology at Ludwig-Geißler-Schule Hanau
German, English, Russian
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Github Skills (200)
benchmark10
ui-components10
udp10
jupyterlab-extension10
dokku10
zsh10
php10
python10
bash10
python-development10
django10
simulations10
swift10
high-performance10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mimischi/django-docker
Sep 2017 - Jun 2020
Toy project. Trying to use Django inside a Docker container for both local development and production deployment.
Contributions:70 commits, 15 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pythonlocal-developmentsentrydjangoproduction
mimischi/dokku-sentry
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Deploy your own instance of Sentry onto Dokku!
Contributions:31 commits, 9 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 9 months
dokkusentry
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