Michael Huston
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Databricks
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Huston is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead with 11 years of experience building high-performance, secure backend systems at Databricks out of New York. He architects and implements low-latency authentication, token management, and API gateway solutions that serve hundreds of thousands of QPS with sub-millisecond p99s, and has led multi-year migrations, multi-team control-plane deployments, and the company’s first global rate-limit service. Michael combines deep distributed-systems and security expertise with a pragmatic focus on user-facing performance—his session-management rewrite cut UI p95 latency by 67%—and he’s repeatedly driven operational resilience by extracting stateful monolith logic into highly available infrastructure. A double major in Computer Science and Applied Math from UC Berkeley, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with a knack for shipping polished features (including a popular “pretty format” SQL notebook tool) and winning internal hackathons.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Double Major in Computer Science, Applied Math, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Double Major in Computer Science, Applied Math at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (38)
kubernetes10
docker10
evaluation10
plugin-architecture10
proxy10
go10
observability9
mlflow9
apache-spark9
continuous-delivery9
machine-learning9
model-management9
cd9
ai9
prompt-engineering9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mikehuston/saffron-strand
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 56 PRs, 137 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mikehuston/typo
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:28 pushes in 14 days
ruby-on-railsapiplugins-apirailsdrag-and-drop
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