Michael Mccoy
Owner at RealMcCoy Network/Security Consulting
Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Mccoy is an experienced owner and technology consultant with 14+ years delivering infrastructure, application and multimedia solutions across enterprise and small-business environments. He blends hands-on systems work—centering on Cisco networks, Windows/Linux/Solaris servers, Oracle/PLSQL and reporting tools—with project leadership, requirements engineering and SDLC discipline. As founder of RealMcCoy Network/Security Consulting he evaluates and recommends hardware/software, manages diverse project teams, and authors the documentation and policies that keep deployments reliable and auditable. He also contributes to open-source Python tooling, notably improving RabbitMQ/AMQP client behavior in the pika library, showing active backend engineering chops beyond his consulting practice. With formal training in network security and computer programming and an earlier background in music composition, he brings both technical rigor and creative problem‑solving to complex integration challenges. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who turns detailed requirements into maintainable, cross‑platform solutions.
14 years of coding experience
B.M., Music Theory & Composition, B.M., Music Theory & Composition at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityB.S., Network Security, B.S., Network Security at ECPI UniversityA.A., Music Theory, A.A., Music Theory at Tidewater Community College
Github Skills (9)
rabbitmq10
management10
libev10
channel10
client-library10
python10
async9
asynchronous9
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pika/pika
Oct 2012 - Jul 2015
Pure Python RabbitMQ/AMQP 0-9-1 client library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `pika/pika` project, a pure Python RabbitMQ/AMQP 0-9-1 client library, by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and improving the library's functionality. Their work included adding callbacks, modifying channel behavior, and integrating a libev adapter. The user also addressed logic errors, ensuring correct consumer tag handling, and enhanced the library's interaction with the RabbitMQ broker. This includes changes to both core channel logic and adapter implementations.
pythonrabbitmq-pythonclient-libraryamqp-0-9-1amqp
michaelplaing/MisteR
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:115 pushes, 19 branches in 3 months
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