Michael Pirrone-brusse
Software Architect at KCF Technologies, Inc.
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Pirrone-brusse is a software architect with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems and improving developer tooling from State College, PA. He blends pragmatic architecture with active coding—refactoring front-end documentation sites, hardening C++ property-testing code, and fixing build and automation issues in Rust SDL2 bindings. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and build pipelines, he focuses on clarity, correctness, and practical fixes that prevent subtle bugs (for example, addressing undefined bit-shift behavior and DLL test installs). His background ranges from embedded/VM research and game development to client services and contractor roles, giving him a broad systems perspective. He’s driven by craftsmanship—“can’t help but write code”—and a habit of turning small improvements into outsized reliability gains.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Self-Designed -- Storytelling in Emerging Media, Theatre | English | Art | Computer Science, Self-Designed -- Storytelling in Emerging Media, Theatre | English | Art | Computer Science at Allegheny College
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
c-language10
bit-manipulation10
sdl10
css10
build-automation10
html10
rust10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
site-design9
sass9
website-design9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
basho/basho_docs
Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
Basho Products Documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:733 commits, 236 PRs, 307 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael was primarily involved in refactoring and updating the Basho documentation site. Their contributions centered around restructuring the website's layouts, and styles. Their changes included implementing dynamic version selection menus, adjusting the overall visual layout and styling of the site, as well as implementing features like dynamic table of contents and heading anchorification.
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Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
SDL2 bindings for Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on the build process and fixing bugs within the SDL2 bindings for Rust. They locked the bundled SDL2 builds to version 2.0.5 and fixed a missing-type bug in the build process. Additionally, the user implemented the "installation" of Windows dynamic libraries, ensuring tests could find the necessary DLLs. They also updated dependencies and improved comments throughout the codebase.
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