Michael Rooney
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Rooney is a pragmatic staff engineer with 18 years of experience building full-stack web applications and infrastructure automation from Austin, Texas. He specializes in Python/Django and JavaScript, with a strong track record in CI/CD, build-and-release systems, and test automation across enterprise and startup environments (notably American Express and multiple web platforms). Michael gravitates toward simplifying interfaces and rooting out the underlying causes of problems rather than applying surface fixes, often contributing to testing frameworks and developer tooling. He also maintains practical open-source work—such as contributions to a Mint.com screen-scraping API—demonstrating a willingness to keep useful integrations working through real-world changes. Comfortable across AWS, Ansible, Jenkins, Redis, and Solr, he combines hands-on coding with systems thinking to make teams more productive.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
api10
python10
apidoc10
webscraping10
http-request10
data-parsing9
selenium9
selenium-ide9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mintapi/mintapi
Feb 2013 - Jan 2023
an unofficial screen-scraping "API" for Mint.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:165 reviews, 313 commits, 224 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Michael focused on building an unofficial screen-scraping API for Mint.com. Their primary contributions involved developing the core functionality of the API, including initial login and account retrieval features. Later commits show they refactored the code to use the Requests module and Python 3 compatibility. The user also addressed Mint.com changes, ensuring the API's continued operation.
screen-scraping
mrooney/mikesgoals
May 2012 - Jul 2022
a goal-tracking site inspired by joesgoals.com, powered by Django and Redis
Contributions:177 commits, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 years 3 months
djangoredis
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