Michael Hale
Software Developer at RoleModel Software
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hale is a seasoned software developer with 16 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, most notably a long tenure at Heroku helping shape PaaS tooling. He blends deep Ruby expertise and DevOps practice—contributing to widely used open-source projects like the Fog cloud library, Excon HTTP client, and Heroku's Ruby buildpack—where his work on AWS Kinesis, connection handling, and buildpack reliability improved real-world robustness. Michael has hands-on experience automating AWS deployments with Chef, optimizing build and deployment pipelines, and shrinking application performance bottlenecks in enterprise settings. Comfortable across systems, automation, and backend engineering, he frequently bridges development and operations to deliver dependable production services. A detail-oriented problem solver, he often fixes subtle system behaviors (connection lifecycles, tagging APIs, temp-directory cleanup) that prevent outages and reduce maintenance overhead.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Programming, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Programming at Fayetteville Technical Community College
Github Skills (21)
api-rest10
amazon-kinesis10
api-design10
restful-api10
excon10
testing10
http10
kin10
ruby10
dns10
aws10
bundler10
heroku10
rest-api10
buildpack10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Feb 2011 - Nov 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily focused on integrating the Dynect DNS provider into the Fog Ruby cloud services library. They implemented the session request and added the Dynect DNS provider along with related files to enable mocking for testing. The user also parsed the zone request and fixed a mock for the tests and included /REST in all requests. These changes allowed for session and zone requests to begin to function with the new provider.
cloud-servicesruby
fog/fog-aws
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Module for the 'fog' gem to support Amazon Web Services http://aws.amazon.com/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Fog gem's AWS (Amazon Web Services) module, specifically focusing on the Kinesis service. Their work included implementing features for handling Kinesis data streams, such as `put_records`, `get_records`, and shard management (`split_shard` and `merge_shards`). The user also integrated functionality to add and remove tags and list tags related to streams, enhancing the module's capabilities for stream interaction and management.
amazon-web-services
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