Michael Rivera
Engineering Leader And Founder - GitLab Knowledge Graph
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Rivera is an engineering leader and founder focused on building GitLab’s Knowledge Graph, combining hands-on software engineering with AI and product leadership across six years of experience. Based in Atlanta, he moves between systems and data—shipping backend improvements (notably contributions to the ts-rest project) while architecting knowledge and agent-facing platforms at scale. He favors small, capable teams that deeply grok hard problems and believes leadership means aligning individual strengths with ownership and trust. His background spans full-stack, BI, and machine learning roles across enterprise and startup settings, from embedding analytics at State Farm to leading AI engineering at GitLab. A self-starter and coffee enthusiast, he pairs pragmatic tool choices with a taste for practical experimentation that surfaces non-obvious insights from messy data.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Economics, Associate's degree Economics at Oxford College of Emory UniversityBachelor's degree Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Bachelor's degree Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Emory UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at North Forsyth High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (14)
fastify10
typescript10
typescripts10
api10
rest10
apidoc10
typescript-types10
nestjs10
openapi9
jtest8
jes8
react8
jestjs8
code-cleanup7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ts-rest/ts-rest
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
RPC-like client, contract, and server implementation for a pure REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:141 reviews, 21 commits, 88 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the `ts-rest/ts-rest` project. Their work included adding features such as response shape capabilities and updating examples. They also addressed issues related to API response handling, particularly in the client-side implementation. Furthermore, they cleaned up the compilation output and addressed other minor issues.
restrest-apirpctypescriptapi
michaelangeloio/does-it-throw
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
lsp server for finding ES statements that throw!
Contributions:7 releases, 24 reviews, 164 PRs in 4 months
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