Michael Quinn
Senior Vice President, Infrastructure & Operations
Lake Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Quinn is a seasoned infrastructure and operations leader with over 25 years of experience driving DevOps and cloud transformations that boost profitability, operational resilience, and user satisfaction. As SVP at Reinsurance Group of America, he has led large, cross-functional and international teams through turnarounds and cultural change, marrying lean/Agile practices with hands-on automation and zero-downtime deployment techniques. He has a proven record of delivering multi-million dollar savings through service-oriented infrastructure, release automation, and lifecycle improvements across enterprises like CenturyLink and Express Scripts. A practitioner at heart, Michael contributes to open-source HPC tooling—adding and fixing packages in the widely used Spack package manager—bringing practical Linux and systems expertise to his executive remit. He’s known for building high-trust workplaces where collocation, hackathons, and learning culture drive productivity and retention. Based in Lake Saint Louis, he blends technical depth with people-first leadership to make complex infrastructure both reliable and enjoyable to operate.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at St. Charles Community CollegeGeneral Studies, General Studies at Truman State University
English
Github Skills (11)
packaging10
build-tools10
python10
package-management10
package10
autotools9
hpc8
linux7
c176
c116
makefile5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 37 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael's primary contributions involve modifying and adding packages to the spack package manager. They fixed issues related to the `configure_args` function in multiple packages, ensuring correct specifications are passed. Additionally, they introduced new packages like `nyancat` and `dateutils` and added support packages such as `libid3tag`, `libexif`, `imlib2`, and `feh`. They also updated existing package definitions, specifically `r-hms`, and fixed template-related issues.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
mizzou-rcss/slurmspark
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:78 commits in 10 months
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