Michael Goldberger is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building, integrating, and operating software from small scripts to enterprise applications, currently contributing to Psiphon on censorship-circumvention infrastructure. He blends backend and DevOps expertise—cross-platform environment design, CI/CD, build systems and release engineering—to reliably ship complex multi-tier solutions. At Ontario Telemedicine Network he led end-to-end web solutions and standardization efforts, and earlier roles show a consistent focus on integrating off-the-shelf software with custom code. His open-source contributions include build and cross-compilation improvements for the well-known Psiphon tunnel project, reflecting a talent for making tooling and infrastructure portable and maintainable. Based in Toronto with a Computer Science background from the University of Toronto, he excels at turning messy integration challenges into repeatable, automated workflows.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Psiphon is an Internet censorship circumvention system.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
Contributions:95 commits, 30 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focus on build system improvements and infrastructure configurations for a censorship circumvention system. They updated Dockerfiles, makefiles, and build scripts to support cross-compilation, dependency management, and building binaries for different operating systems. This involved integrating tools like gox and goupx to streamline the build process. The user also made changes to the application's core functionality by modifying and optimizing the code.
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Michael Goldberger - Software Engineer at Psiphon inc