Michael Oleske
Staff Software Engineer at Kohl's
United States
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Top SchoolMichael Oleske is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and improving back-end systems at companies from Pivotal and VMware to Broadcom and Kohl's. He focuses on distributed caching, cloud controllers, and CLI tooling—contributing notable performance and refactor work to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Geode and the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. His contributions emphasize reliability and maintainability: releasing server affinity promptly, converting stats to long for scale, tightening authorization boundaries, and modernizing testing and build infrastructure. Comfortable across engineering and DevOps concerns, he ships pragmatic solutions that reduce technical debt and improve observability. A Cornell-trained engineer, he brings both enterprise R&D experience and hands-on open-source impact, often improving core behaviors rather than surface features. Colleagues would call out his knack for quietly removing complexity while boosting performance in mission-critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Master of Engineering (MEng) at Cornell University
Github Skills (23)
api-rest10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
rspec10
java10
ruby10
javas10
go10
performance-optimization10
rest-api10
geode10
cli10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:305 reviews, 52 commits, 361 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on enhancing the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller, focusing on access control and permissions. Their contributions include implementing security measures for various endpoints, specifically related to packages, builds, and service credential bindings, and isolation segments. They also addressed route ownership and implemented functionalities related to route sharing. The changes often involved modifying controllers and specifications to enforce authorization rules and improve the system's security.
cloud-foundrycloudfoundryruby
cloudfoundry/cli
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:232 reviews, 18 commits, 337 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry CLI's functionality and improving its testing infrastructure. The commits reveal the implementation of features like application renaming and modifications to testing frameworks. They also include updates to dependencies and the migration to more modern build environments, demonstrating a focus on maintaining the CLI's performance and developer experience. The code changes touch core components like the cloud controller client and application lifecycle management.
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