Michael Hoyt
Engineering at Vesal Security
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Hoyt is a backend software and DevOps engineer with nine years focused on cloud-native platforms and a much longer career rooted in ASIC physical design, bringing rare cross-domain depth from hardware to distributed systems. Based in Seattle, he has built CI/CD and declarative PaaS tooling at Starbucks, led backend and DevOps efforts at Shujinko and Perygee, and now contributes engineering leadership at Vesal Security. He excels at automating complex operational workflows—especially around CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Golang—while keeping security and auditability front and center. That blend of rigorous hardware engineering background and modern cloud platform experience gives him a pragmatic systems perspective useful for solving thorny performance, reliability, and compliance challenges.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Engineering, M.S. Computer Engineering at University of IdahoA.S. Computer Science, A.S. Computer Science at SUNY Broome Community College
Github Skills (21)
seccomp9
vulnerabilities9
docker8
clair8
oci-image8
static-analysis8
vulnerability8
kubernetes7
security7
launchdarkly6
coreos6
go6
testing6
in-memory5
postgresql4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mlhoyt/ramsql
Sep 2019 - May 2020
In-memory SQL engine in Go sql/driver for testing purpose
Contributions:22 releases, 32 commits, 51 PRs in 7 months
golangmemorytestingsqlpurpose
mlhoyt/DojoAssignments
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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