Summary
Michael Horohoe is a seasoned infrastructure and release engineer with 16 years in software, known for building and maintaining CI/CD and GitOps-driven platforms that power large-scale open-source projects like MediaWiki. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform-style IaC, AWS cost optimization, and automating toil to boost developer productivity across startups and nonprofits. At the Wikimedia Foundation he served as release manager for multiple MediaWiki versions and later standardized cluster fleets and Flux-based GitOps at Rad AI. Michael balances security and compliance with pragmatic engineering, preferring open-source solutions to avoid vendor lock-in. He’s motivated by delivering scalable, auditable systems that serve millions of users, and off-hours you’ll find him shooting pool or walking his dog in San Diego. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of reuniting and modernizing legacy release processes into reliable, automated pipelines.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General at Virginia Commonwealth University
English, French