Michael Personick
Open-Source Developer, Committer at Apache TinkerPop
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Personick is a seasoned software engineer and open-source committer with 20+ years of experience specializing in graph database architectures, storage, indexing, and query engines. He co-created Blazegraph and led engineering for Amazon Neptune’s Gremlin and OpenCypher engines, helping launch two major graph platforms and bringing production-grade scalability to cloud graph services. An active Apache TinkerPop committer, he contributes deep Gremlin expertise—recently improving core test suites to harden the traversal engine. Michael pairs hands-on systems design with product-minded leadership from startup to hyperscaler environments, and holds an MBA alongside a BS in Systems Engineering and Computer Science. Based in Salt Lake City, he also has a quirky history of early "Big Data" branding from his Blazegraph days, reflecting a long view on the evolution of data systems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Systems Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Systems Engineering and Computer Science at University of VirginiaAlexandria, VA, Alexandria, VA at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyMBA, MBA at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
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Github Skills (8)
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Github contributions (5)
apache/tinkerpop
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Apache TinkerPop - a graph computing framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 23 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions focused on cleaning up test cases within the Apache TinkerPop graph computing framework. These changes involved refactoring and anonymizing test code, specifically within the `AnonymizingTypeTranslatorTest.java` file. The user demonstrated a deep understanding of the Gremlin query language by adjusting test cases to accommodate different types and parameters. The user's work ensured the robustness and maintainability of the testing suite for the core Gremlin traversal engine.
graph-computingtinkerpopgremlin-serverapacheapache-tinkerpop
mikepersonick/tinkerpop
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Apache TinkerPop - a graph computing framework
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 109 pushes in 3 months
graph-computingtinkerpopapacheapache-tinkerpopgraph
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