Michael Mcclimon
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Mcclimon is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of backend-focused experience, currently contributing to MongoDB’s Cluster-to-Cluster Sync work on mongosync and verification. He spent five years building and maintaining core backend services at Fastmail, often working in Perl and improving reliability across production systems. An active open-source contributor, Michael has enhanced well-known projects like the php-markdown parser and the ack tool by improving parsing, regex handling, and cross-platform file handling—work that reflects a practical, systems-minded approach to text processing. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs deep engineering chops with an unusual academic background: a PhD in Music Theory, which informs a meticulous, pattern-oriented perspective on code and systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Theory, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Theory at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Music, Music Theory, Bachelor of Music, Music Theory at Furman University
Github Skills (16)
grepl10
cli10
regular-expression10
markdown10
command-line-interface10
php10
markdown-it10
perl10
grep10
optimization10
command-line10
file-handling9
html9
regex8
computer-engineering7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
beyondgrep/ack2
Apr 2013 - May 2013
**ack 2 is no longer being maintained. ack 3 is the latest version.**
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the ack2 project by addressing bugs, improving code efficiency, and enhancing the usability of the command-line tool. Their work involved removing dependencies, optimizing code performance through regex removal and flag checking, and fixing issues related to file handling on different operating systems. They also made documentation improvements to align the help and man pages, and added newline characters to create-ackrc output.
pythonheterogeneousackoptimizedgrep
michelf/php-markdown
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Parser for Markdown and Markdown Extra derived from the original Markdown.pl by John Gruber.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael focused on enhancing the Markdown parser's functionality by adding support for header attributes such as IDs and classes. Their commits involved modifying the parsing logic to correctly interpret and incorporate these attributes into the generated HTML. This work involved the modification of regular expressions for both Setext and ATX style headers, and refactoring existing code to handle ID and class attributes. These improvements increase the flexibility of the Markdown parser and provide more control over the generated HTML structure.
wiki-enginemarkdown-extracommonmarkderivedmarkdown-it
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