Michael Goins
Executive Director at Transformation Project Prison Ministry
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Goins is an experienced technology leader and Executive Director with over 12 years in IT and a career spanning cloud migrations, systems engineering, and backend development. He has led teams through complex AWS migrations and enterprise maintenance programs at HPE, DXC, and HP, and contributed backend code to open-source projects like the nZEDb Usenet indexer. Based in Colorado, he pairs technical depth in databases, Java, Linux, and cloud architectures with hands-on project management and gatekeeping for executive-level decision making. Outside corporate roles he directs a prison ministry producing and distributing rehabilitative media, demonstrating a commitment to community impact and storytelling. His background as a former Air Force cryptologic linguist and a computer science graduate gives him a rare mix of disciplined operational rigor and software engineering savvy. He’s driven by continuous learning, mentoring others, and delivering practical, auditable solutions that bridge technology and people.
11 years of coding experience
Candidate, Master of Divinity, Candidate, Master of Divinity at Iliff School of TheologyCandidate, Master of Divinity, Candidate, Master of Divinity at Wesley Theological SeminaryBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland, University College MarylandMaster, Human Relations, Master, Human Relations at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (8)
apim10
php10
usenet10
api10
apidoc10
mysql9
database-design9
webscraping8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
nZEDb/nZEDb
Jun 2014 - May 2015
nZEDb - a fork of nnplus(2011) | NNTP / Usenet / Newsgroup indexer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:236 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits focus on implementing and refactoring back-end functionality for the nZEDb project, a Usenet indexer. They primarily modified the Games and XXXMovie controllers, adding features related to Giantbomb API integration, and refining the process of retrieving and incorporating game information from various sources. The changes included database updates, model enhancements, and adjustments to the core logic responsible for processing and categorizing releases.
nginxnewsgroupssiftnzbphp
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