Michael Nygard
Founder, Principal Consultant at N6 Consulting, LLC
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Nygard is a seasoned founder and principal consultant with 35 years of experience at the intersection of people, processes, organizations, and large-scale systems, best known for the influential reliability patterns in Release It!. He has led engineering organizations and platform transformations at scale—most recently owning Nubank’s $300M+ Data BU and improving data availability to >99% while halving cost trajectories and raising team engagement dramatically. Michael excels at turning architecture into a durable organizational discipline, driving automated tech-debt remediation, and delivering developer experience and AI enablement programs adopted by >90% of engineers. His background blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions to server-side and Clojure tooling in open-source projects) with executive-level coaching for CTOs and boards of public and PE-backed firms. He focuses on practical, cross-cutting solutions where technical, process, and human concerns must be solved together to operate reliably under real-world stakes.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (22)
pedestal10
game-engine10
apidoc10
clojure-cli10
game-dev10
statistics10
statistic10
java10
clojure10
javas10
api10
game-development10
testing9
jvm9
plugin-development9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pedestal/pedestal
May 2013 - May 2018
The Pedestal Server-side Libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 16 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the robustness and functionality of the Pedestal server-side libraries. They implemented tests for ServletInputStream to match production behavior, addressed issues with empty request bodies, and refactored test contexts for reusability. A significant portion of the work involved API documentation improvements, including integrating Codox for documentation generation and setting up deployment to GitHub pages, along with updates to links. Furthermore, the user contributed to improved error handling in routing definitions.
server-sidepedestalclojure
defold/defold
Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, console, mobile and web games.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:263 commits, 6 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the Defold game engine by implementing features related to Clojure, ClojureScript, and nREPL plugins. The work included adding support for Clojure libraries and integrating them into the engine, creating new scene editor plugins for Clojure development, and integrating nREPL functionality for more convenient development workflows. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the development experience for Defold users, particularly those using Clojure and related technologies.
defoldgame-enginemobilec-plus-plusclojure
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