Michael Gee
Principal Engineering Manager at Orange Barrel Media
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gee is an experienced engineering leader with 14 years of software development and management, currently building high-performing teams as Engineering Manager at Orange Barrel Media in Columbus, Ohio. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at CoverMyMeds—rising from API-focused software developer to Engineering Director—where he delivered production-grade integrations that helped patients access medications. A hands-on manager who still contributes code, Michael has made bug fixes and enhancements to the prominent rubocop project, demonstrating continued engagement with the Ruby ecosystem and tooling quality. His background includes academic software and systems work at The Ohio State University and early physics research, reflecting a blend of analytical rigor and practical engineering. Known for coaching engineers to grow while shipping reliable APIs and developer tooling, he brings a pragmatic, infrastructure-aware approach to scaling teams and systems.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (15)
linter10
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
formater10
code-formatting10
ruby10
regular-expression7
financial6
nokogiri6
finance6
api6
macos6
bundler6
dsl6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rubocop/rubocop
Mar 2016 - May 2022
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 474 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the RuboCop codebase. Their work involved addressing issues related to environment variables, gem ordering, and the handling of arguments in specific code styles. They also improved the tool by addressing magic comment parsing and fixing a bug with the `MutableConstant` cop. The user's contributions focused on refining the Ruby static code analyzer and formatter's functionality.
code-analyzerrubyruby-style-guiderubocoplinter
covermymeds/sql_footprint
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
A Ruby gem that keeps a footprint of your sql queries that you can check into source control.
Contributions:1 review, 18 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 5 months
rubysqldatabasefootprint
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