Michael Mcfadden
Founder at OpenForge Solutions
Dumfries, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Mcfadden is a technology leader and founder with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient enterprise systems, cloud infrastructures, and broadcast media platforms. He’s known for solving high-stakes problems under tight timelines—most notably inventing and open-sourcing CasterPak, a production HLS streaming solution that replaced a vendor service on 90 days’ notice and ran flawlessly for years. His background spans architecture, platform migrations (Plone 2→5, Python 2→3), and high-throughput data systems, with deep AWS expertise across EC2, Lambda, S3, and IAM. Michael has driven strategic technical partnerships (ScienceLogic–Cisco), integrated high-speed ingestion tools like IBM Aspera, and translated engineering work into measurable business and revenue outcomes. He combines mentorship and process redesign across global, multi-language teams with an operator’s focus on reliability and cost-effectiveness. Based in Dumfries, VA, he remains active in open source and welcomes collaborations on architecture, digital transformation, and media technology challenges.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Appalachian State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (150)
bootcamp10
vms10
content-type10
backend10
plone10
video-processing10
transcoding10
video-streaming10
ovp10
myst10
mysql10
sphinx10
capistrano10
media-services10
media-library10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flipmcf/training
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
A training for future Plone developers
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
pythonplonetraining
RadioFreeAsia/rfa.kaltura2
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Kaltura Integration with Plone 5 and Python 3
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 71 pushes in 3 years 1 month
pythonmlskalturapython-3plone
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