Michael Grant
Technical Fellow & VP, Technical Solutons at Anaconda, Inc.
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Grant is an internationally recognized expert in convex optimization and a hands-on technical leader with over 20 years of experience building optimization software, developer tools, and production analytics systems. Currently Technical Fellow & VP at Anaconda, he owns the full technical customer journey while continuing to write code and contribute to open-source projects such as core conda tooling and the ECOS solver. His work bridges deep academic credentials—a Ph.D. from Stanford under Stephen Boyd—with practical engineering, from accelerating GPU computations at Caltech to improving installer and build systems for widely used Python package ecosystems. He blends product-level leadership with low-level implementation skills, having shipped platform improvements that enhance robustness, package resolution, and cross-platform binaries. Colleagues describe him as a rare leader who still finds joy in coding and who deliberately keeps a consulting practice (CVX Research) to advance the state of computational optimization.
20 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinLejeune High SchoolPh.D. Electrical Engineering (topic: Convex Optimization), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (topic: Convex Optimization) at Stanford University
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Github Skills (33)
conda-build10
package-management10
apidoc10
python10
conda10
matlab10
c1110
c1710
api10
build-automation10
version-control10
dependency-resolution10
r9
cicd9
linux9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
conda/constructor
Jun 2016 - Feb 2022
tool for creating installers from conda packages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 17 reviews, 146 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the `conda/constructor` repository, which focuses on building conda installers. The contributions include implementing support for the 4.1 channel format and integrating API functions like `get_index` within the `constructor/fcp.py` file. They also added the `url2dist` function to the `constructor/utils.py` file. The user was also involved in improving the installer by including the `urls.txt` file and handling channel remapping.
conda-packagesmambacondainstallers
conda/conda
Oct 2015 - May 2022
A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 372 commits, 235 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the core logic of the conda package and environment manager, specifically focusing on improving the pruning process within the package resolution mechanism. Their commits introduced a pruning pass to quickly remove unused packages and implemented logging to aid in debugging. The user also made enhancements to the code, including adjustments to the version comparison logic and fixes to prevent recursion issues, thus improving the overall stability and performance of the system.
os-agnosticcondaagnosticpackage-managerlinux
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