Michael Recachinas
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Recachinas is a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub with 11 years of experience building security, developer tools, and systems. He leads internal development for GitHub's Security Services org and previously drove technical strategy and architecture for Product Security Engineering, shipping automation for static analysis, vulnerability remediation, lifecycle tracking, and incident response. Michael has a strong systems background across Python, Go, real-time streaming, and cloud-native deployments, and he has repeatedly modernized legacy systems into scalable service-oriented architectures. His career spans government and commercial work—delivering analytics and signal-processing platforms, open-source libraries, and DevOps best practices—paired with hands-on mentoring and recruiting. Based in Washington, D.C., he balances deep technical leadership with practical shipping focus and an inclination to prototype AI-assisted tooling, as evidenced by early GPT-3 auto-categorization experiments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering at University of Virginia
Greek, French, English
Stackoverflow
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38answers
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Github Skills (187)
github-advanced-security10
notebook10
graph-algorithms10
python10
network-analysis10
clippy10
ipython10
sigplot10
codeql10
security10
digital-signal-processing10
graph-visualization10
file-parser10
linter10
data-representation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
spectriclabs/sigplot-data-service
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
Thinning and Tiling Service for SigPlot applications
Contributions:5 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
golangpythonsigplottilingtile-server
kyjohnso/bts_prediction_market
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
A prediction market aimed at winning MLBs Beat The Streak fantasy game
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
pythonpredictionprediction-marketstreakmachine-learning
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