Michael Gorven
Production Engineer at Guild.ai
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gorven is a Production Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud and infrastructure systems, currently building reliability at Guild.ai after senior roles at Lightspark and multiple production engineering positions at Facebook. His background spans open source, Python, virtualization, RESTful APIs, and Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Debian, with early career work on the Nimbula Director cloud OS that preceded Oracle acquisition. He has hands-on experience keeping high-traffic services and next-generation platforms (including AI/ML infra and blockchain efforts) operational under strict availability requirements. Based in Seattle and trained in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cape Town, he blends systems-level rigor with practical automation and cloud-first thinking. Notably, his career threads through both startup product-building and large-scale ops at hyperscale companies, giving him a rare perspective on shipping resilient infrastructure from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSc Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cape Town
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (108)
python10
cryptocurrency10
verifiable-credentials10
esp3210
home-assistant10
ledger10
xrp10
yaml10
platformio10
diem10
financial10
finance10
fintech10
esphome10
esp826610
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mgorven/libra
Jul 2019 - May 2021
Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
Contributions:113 pushes, 205 branches in 1 year 10 months
financialreactjavascriptinfrastructurecurrency
mgorven/esphome
Jul 2021 - May 2024
ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
simple-yet-powerfulremotelyremote-controlesp8266mqtt
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