Michael Lumish
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Michael Lumish is a Software Engineer with 14 years of experience based in Sunnyvale, California, currently building core infrastructure at Google after earning a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon. He focuses on backend systems, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as gRPC (C++ and Node.js) and Google Auth libraries, with notable work on xDS routing, traffic-splitting, and robust token refresh flows. Michael blends systems-level C++ maintenance and Node/PHP library development with DevOps attention to build and test infrastructure, showing an ability to improve reliability across language boundaries. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he has a track record of refactoring for maintainability and resolving complex interop and memory-management issues that quietly keep distributed systems humming.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (53)
google-api10
javascript10
c-language10
lib10
python10
testing10
typescript10
user-authentication10
load-balancing10
google-auth-library10
authentication10
xsd10
cicd10
php10
google-cloud10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-node
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
gRPC for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:257 releases, 256 reviews, 3095 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the gRPC Node.js project, particularly focusing on the implementation of xDS features. Their commits showcase a focus on features related to routing, traffic splitting, and handling of errors. They also worked on the build and test infrastructure, as evidenced by changes to the shell scripts and test configurations for various xDS tests.
node-jsgrpcgrpc-webnodejstypescript
grpc/grpc
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 47 reviews, 2050 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on maintaining and extending the gRPC C++ library, with a focus on improving the underlying infrastructure and core functionality. Their contributions include merging branches, fixing bugs related to Bidi calls and interop server methods, and updating version information. They also refactored aspects of the codebase related to memory management and network handling.
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