Michael Graff
Vice President Of Engineering at Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Graff is a veteran engineering leader and systems programmer with over two decades of experience building high-reliability network and cloud software, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering. He combines deep protocol and DNS expertise (including BIND 9 and DNSSEC deployment) with hands-on backend development in JVM and Ruby ecosystems, having contributed to Netflix projects like Atlas and the Kayenta canary service. Michael’s background spans low-level C and system work (NetBSD, /dev/random) to distributed services and operational experimentation for safer cloud deployments, reflecting a rare full-stack perspective on reliability and observability. An active IETF participant and long-time open-source contributor, he pairs technical stewardship with product and budget management experience, and even applies his engineering focus to community roles dating back to the early internet era.
13 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (39)
kotlin10
timeseries-database10
api-rest10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
data-structure10
java10
scala10
javas10
data-structures10
rest-api10
orchestration10
orchestra10
spinnaker10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/kayenta
May 2017 - Apr 2019
Automated Canary Service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 114 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on developing and refactoring back-end features within the `kayenta` project, a canary analysis service. Their contributions include adding functionality for handling SSE (Server-Sent Events) responses, switching to Java arrays for data storage, and implementing a memory-based object store for efficient data management. The user also integrated a remote judge service, showing a focus on core service functionality and data processing.
javapythoncanaryselenium
spinnaker/orca
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Orchestration engine
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 7 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Kayenta integration within the Spinnaker/Orca project, an orchestration engine. They implemented features to pass account details to Kayenta for deployments, and refactored code to handle missing notifications in the template configuration. Furthermore, they fixed timing issues within the canary stage and introduced a new stage for waiting until a specified time, indicating a focus on improving the execution flow and stability of canary deployments. These changes involve modifications to Kotlin code and configurations specific to the Kayenta module.
orchestration-engineaerospikeorchestration
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