Michael 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
The Phoronix Test Suite open-source, cross-platform automated testing/benchmarking software.
Contributions:65 releases, 6 reviews, 9845 commits in 14 years 11 months
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