Michael Handelman
Founder at Civic Forge Solutions LLC
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Handelman is a founder and data-focused technologist with over a decade of experience applying machine learning, cloud platforms, and full-stack engineering to public-sector and political challenges. He has built and operated production data infrastructure and voter-facing services—most notably FindYour.Vote—and recently supported voter protection analytics at the DNC using BigQuery, dbt, VertexAI, and TensorFlow. His background in federal banking supervision and policy gives him rare domain fluency for translating regulatory and operational constraints into robust analytical systems. Michael runs Civic Forge Solutions and a regional Mastodon instance, reflecting a mix of entrepreneurial instincts and community-focused product work. He blends hands-on coding (Python, SQL, AWS/GCP) with program-level design and stakeholder-facing analysis, consistently shipping auditable, mission-driven systems. Not obvious from titles: he’s repeatedly bridged deep federal financial analytics and grassroots political tech, turning complex public-data problems into practical production tools.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MPP/UP Public Policy Urban Planning, MPP/UP Public Policy Urban Planning at Harvard Kennedy SchoolBS Economics Public Policy, BS Economics Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology
German
Github Skills (37)
natural-language-understanding9
monitor9
ubuntu9
minecraft9
uptime9
status-page9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
sdk8
chroot8
google8
authentication7
debian7
crouton7
chromeos7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mikehikes/bert_examples
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
theatl-social/theatl-social-status
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Public status page for theatl.social
Contributions:2 PRs, 1082 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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