Michael Larabel
Founder at Phoronix Media
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Larabel is the founder and principal developer behind Phoronix.com and the Phoronix Test Suite/OpenBenchmarking.org, bringing 18 years of experience publishing Linux-focused journalism and building open-source benchmarking tools. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he blends systems-level Linux expertise, web and PHP development, and hardware performance analytics to run a media site that attracts hundreds of millions of annual hits. His work uniquely bridges hands-on benchmarking software development with editorial coverage of Linux hardware and performance, making technical measurement accessible to a broad audience. Previously he led software development for health-tech and consumer monitoring ventures, showing a pattern of applying practical engineering to real-world problems beyond journalism.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting Business Administration, Accounting Business Administration at Aquinas College - Grand Rapids
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Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles
Dec 2010 - Dec 2022
A read-only Git copy of the OpenBenchmarking.org test profiles.
Contributions:2 reviews, 2340 commits, 106 PRs in 12 years 2 months
testinglinuxbenchmarkbenchmarkstests
phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite
Apr 2008 - Jan 2023
The Phoronix Test Suite open-source, cross-platform automated testing/benchmarking software.
Contributions:65 releases, 6 reviews, 9845 commits in 14 years 11 months
benchmarkingprofilingautomated-testingtestingphp
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