Michael Kurrels
Software Engineer Founder at dontfearthesweeper
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Kurrels is a software engineer and founder in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building pragmatic, user-focused systems—particularly tools that reduce screen time and expand access to information for people on feature phones. He founded Internot Tools and maintains a free SMS street-sweeping reminder service, blending backend engineering (notably in Go) with real-world social impact. His background includes cloud platform automation at QOMPLX, SDK work translating Node to idiomatic Go, and security-focused contracting for the Financial Times, showing a mix of reliability, automation, and secure design. A UC Berkeley philosophy graduate turned Hack Reactor alum, he brings uncommon product empathy informed by humanities training and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy at University of California, BerkeleyAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
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Github Skills (85)
sms-messages10
react-component9
gmail-api9
exchange9
kraken9
text-message9
trading-bot9
cryptocurrency9
poloniex9
datepicker8
dates8
golang8
trading8
algorithmic-trading8
binance8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zenaton/examples-go
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Examples of workflows implemented in Golang using Zenaton
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 months
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mKurrels/testHelpfulOwl
May 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:191 commits, 233 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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