Michael Kobit
Software Engineer at Stripe
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kobit is a software engineer and engineering lead with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, streaming pipelines, and developer experience platforms across startups and enterprises. He’s delivered production data processing and observability at scale—from launching Flink and NiFi pipelines to driving cross-org retention and deletion systems at Coinbase—and now contributes to platform work at Stripe. Comfortable across Python, Java, and Kotlin, he blends hands-on implementation with developer productivity improvements like build automation, Kubernetes migrations, and infrastructure testing. An advocate for clarity, he has improved usability of widely used open-source tooling by enhancing documentation for the popular requests library. Based in Naperville, IL, he’s pursuing roles that advance developer experience and machine learning platforms to multiply long-term business value. If you reach out, include a joke—he asks for one in opening messages.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Engineering, Computer Engineering Engineering at Purdue University
English
Github Skills (6)
http10
python10
http-request10
documentation10
clientside9
webclient9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
psf/requests
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the documentation for the `requests` library. Their commits added new sections, improved existing explanations, and organized request and response object attributes. The changes included restructuring content and providing clear examples to help users understand how to access and utilize request information, thereby significantly improving the library's usability. The contributions aimed at clarifying the `requests` API for users.
http-librarypythonhttp-clientjavascriptpython-requests
mikeholler/mikeholler.github.io
Feb 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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