Michael Plump is a software engineering manager with 13 years of experience leading cloud-native delivery and developer tooling at Google, currently focused on Cloud Deploy and previously on Spinnaker. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps engineering—contributing substantial fixes and refactors across Spinnaker components like clouddriver, orca, gate, and halyard—with people leadership to ship reliable deployment pipelines at scale. His work improving build, containerization, and Gradle/plugin integrations highlights a deep practical knowledge of Java tooling, CI/CD, and GCP-specific operations. An active open-source contributor, he has helped harden Spinnaker’s multi-cloud continuous delivery platform and even improved tooling used by many teams (e.g., google-java-format plugin). Based in New York, he brings a pragmatic, test-focused approach to complex system reliability while admitting a fondness for candy—proof he keeps work enjoyable.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Portland State University
Reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:9 reviews, 41 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the development and maintenance of the google-java-format IntelliJ plugin. Their commits focused on enhancing the plugin's functionality, including adding configuration options for AOSP style formatting. The user also worked on refactoring the plugin to allow for per-module configuration and addressing issues with the code style manager. Furthermore, they were responsible for updating the plugin to align with newer IntelliJ versions.
Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 22 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to improving the build and deployment processes within the Spinnaker platform. They addressed issues related to cloud infrastructure, containerization, and build tools, including refactoring the use of deprecated `gcloud` commands and configuring Java8 container builds. The user also fixed failures in the build and release process, such as retrying connection timeouts from `gist.github.com` and fixing log messages, improving the stability and efficiency of the build pipeline. Their work also involved updating codelabs related to Docker registries and ensuring that code labs were up to date with the newest deployment infrastructure.
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Michael Plump - Software Engineering Manager at Google