Michael Germano

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Michael Germano is a UCLA computer science junior and seasoned software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems and contributing to open-source network infrastructure. Currently based in Los Angeles, he has implemented core features and production fixes for the widely used Magma project—adding SWx proxy metrics, health configurability, and robust gRPC authentication and deregistration logic. An incoming Facebook software engineer (August 2018), he combines strong academic performance (3.85 major GPA) with practical expertise in scalable network services and observability. Michael’s background shows a rare mix of student curiosity and professional impact, from bug fixes to instrumentation that improve reliability at scale.

10 years of coding experience

Junior, Cumulative GPA: 3.60, Major GPA: 3.85, Junior, Cumulative GPA: 3.60, Major GPA: 3.85 at University of California, Los Angeles

Github Skills (10)

collections10

go10

prometheus10

data-collection10

network-protocol10

grpc10

metric10

network-programming9

configuration-management9

http9

Programming languages (3)

C++CGo

Github contributions (5)

magma/magma

Feb 2019 - Apr 2021

Platform for building access networks and modular network services

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:3 releases, 309 reviews, 357 commits in 2 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Michael implemented core features related to the SWx proxy service, including the addition of request metrics to the `swx_proxy` service for collecting and reporting Prometheus metrics. They also corrected a bug in the Feg Mconfig init refresh error and fixed a bug in which the obisidian handler for the federated gateway config type was set as the network config. In addition, they added various features such as configurable health parameters and a verification authorization option for the `swx_proxy` authenticate gRPC method. Finally they added logic to a Deregister GRPC method for SWx Proxy.

network-servicenetworksmobile3gpppython

mpgermano/magma

Jul 2020 - Apr 2021

Platform for building access networks and modular network services

Contributions:203 pushes, 129 branches in 9 months

networking4gjunipermodularnetwork

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