Michael Golowka
Principal Engineer, Team Lead at RADICL
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Golowka is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building infrastructure and product-focused systems across cloud-native, database, and security domains. He’s worked at companies from Google and HashiCorp to DigitalOcean and Quome, bringing practical expertise in distributed systems, databases (notably MongoDB), and Kubernetes deployments. An infrastructure generalist who enjoys breaking and hardening systems, he has contributed to the widely used HashiCorp Vault project—improving Helm/Kubernetes docs and enhancing database plugin behavior and authentication templates. Michael combines hands-on full-stack engineering with documentation and operational rigor, making complex integrations more reliable and maintainable. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he pairs deep technical craft with a habit of surfacing subtle product and security improvements that often go unnoticed until they matter.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (14)
secret-management10
secrets-manager10
go10
vault10
documentation10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
helm9
mongodb-database8
mysql8
mongodb8
postgresql8
junit6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:255 reviews, 131 commits, 229 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the documentation, specifically within the context of the Helm chart and Kubernetes configurations. This involved splitting documentation into multiple pages, updating Kubernetes documentation to reflect the Kubernetes Auth method, and documenting standalone TLS examples. The user also made changes to the database plugins. They also added username templating as well as updates to password policies for OpenLDAP, RabbitMQ, Active Directory, Azure, and MongoDB.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
pcman312/docker
Sep 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
containersdocker-containersdocker-imagedocker
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