Michael Renner
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Gmunden, Upper Austria
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RockstarMichael Renner is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating web applications and internet services, currently shaping core systems at GitHub. He blends hands-on engineering with team leadership and operations management, having progressed from enterprise support to senior and staff engineering roles within the same company. His background includes founding startups and leading infrastructure teams across cloud and research-focused organizations, giving him a practical entrepreneurial lens on reliability and scalability. A certified Scrum Master who prefers remote roles, he is as comfortable managing cross-functional operations teams as he is diving into low-level system and deployment details. Based in Gmunden, Austria, he brings a rare combination of long-term operational experience and product-facing engineering at scale.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (96)
libgit210
archiving10
powerdns10
recovery10
backup10
dns10
laravel10
large-files10
multi-process10
versioning10
checksum10
gzip10
github-enterprise10
git-addons10
counter10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
terrorobe/munin-plugins
Dec 2008 - Jun 2012
Contributions:80 commits in 3 years 6 months
terrorobe/vzstuff
Nov 2008 - Mar 2011
Contributions:30 commits in 2 years 3 months
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