Michael Hackner
Staff Software Engineer at Rivian
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Hackner is a staff software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building developer productivity, build and CI systems for high-scale autonomy and consumer products. He has led teams at Tesla (build and CI for Autopilot), headed developer productivity at Zipline, and now drives productivity in Rivian’s Autonomy org, combining hands-on engineering with people management and mentoring. Michael excels at designing sustainable engineering cultures and toolchains that enable 100+ person orgs to move fast and reliably, and he has a track record of modernizing build pipelines, CI, and cloud deployments across multiple companies. He pairs an MS in Computer Science with deep practical experience in Java, Docker, AWS, and continuous delivery, and is particularly focused on developer tooling, observability, and making build systems a force multiplier rather than a bottleneck. Notably, he’s repeatedly been recruited to lead productivity efforts in autonomous-vehicle teams, demonstrating both domain trust and an ability to scale developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB.S., Mathematics & Spanish, B.S., Mathematics & Spanish at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (158)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
HackAttack/bazel
Apr 2019 - Jul 2026
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 4 months
scalablegleambazelmulti-languagemojo
HackAttack/bamboo-github-status
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
A plugin for Atlassian Bamboo that reports build results to the GitHub status API
Contributions:9 releases, 54 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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