Michael Pilquist
Fellow, VIPER Solutions Architecture at Comcast Cable
United States
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Top SchoolMichael Pilquist is a senior solutions architect and software engineer with 15+ years building and driving video platform architecture for Comcast and Sky, currently leading VIPER solutions for acquisition, compression, conditioning, ad insertion, and multi‑delivery distribution. He combines deep systems and backend engineering expertise—developed through roles at Motorola and Lockheed Martin—with hands‑on contributions to major Scala open‑source projects like the Scala 3 compiler, cats, cats‑effect, and skunk. His OSS work shows a focus on correctness, performance and security (e.g., adding SCRAM‑SHA‑256 support and IO runtime improvements), reflecting an engineer who improves both core libraries and large production systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex multimedia requirements into practical, deployable architectures that span IP and QAM delivery. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Penn State and brings an unusual blend of telecom-grade systems thinking and functional programming craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Schreyer Honors College at Penn StateBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University
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Github Skills (55)
asynchronous10
ssl10
lib10
postgresql10
tls1210
typeclass10
async10
compiler-development10
testing10
top-level10
scalaz10
databases10
rest-services10
user-authentication10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/fs2
Dec 2013 - Jan 2023
Compositional, streaming I/O library for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 releases, 265 reviews, 4139 commits in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the fs2 library, focusing on enhancements and features related to asynchronous input/output streams in Scala. Their commits involve fixing interruption issues and porting features such as parJoin and observe. They also addressed issues with code differences and type class constraints, showcasing their work in improving the library's capabilities for functional programming.
stream-processingfunctional-programmingfunctional-reactive-programmingstreamsstreaming
scodec/scodec
Apr 2013 - Jan 2023
Scala combinator library for working with binary data
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 1151 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael appears to have primarily focused on building out a combinator library for working with binary data. Their contributions involved creating and modifying core codecs, including those for integers, strings, and floating-point numbers. They also added features like support for variable-length integers, enumerated types, and a new `zlib` combinator, and also refactored existing aspects of the library.
binary-datadecodingfunctional-programmingencodingcombinator
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