Michael Schurter
Principal Engineer at HashiCorp
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Schurter is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently leading Nomad engineering at HashiCorp from Portland, Oregon. He specializes in backend systems and distributed orchestration, contributing to core Nomad internals such as task models, port handling, and connection limits to improve reliability and security at scale. His work spans hands-on development, testing and refactoring across HashiCorp projects like go-getter, and he also contributes documentation improvements to open-source tooling (e.g., pylibmc). Comfortable in both engineering lead and individual contributor roles, he brings an operator’s pragmatism to design decisions and a track record of shipping durable infrastructure. Colleagues appreciate that he pairs deep systems knowledge with attention to developer experience—often surfacing subtle but important issues like thread-safety and symlink behavior in tooling.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Greenville College
Github Skills (13)
go10
api-design10
documentation10
testing10
networking9
deco9
git8
aws-s38
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
containerization7
python5
cicd4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 1000 reviews, 2580 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on improving the backend of the Nomad orchestrator project by addressing several issues related to service and task management. They contributed to improvements in port handling by addressing invalid port labels and preventing the use of port 0. Furthermore, they contributed to improving the design of the system's internals by modifying the task model. The user also focused on enhancing the security of the project by adding features related to connection limits.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
hashicorp/go-getter
Jul 2017 - Jan 2022
Package for downloading things from a string URL using a variety of protocols.
Role in this project:Backend & Test Engineer
Backend & Test EngineerContributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 20 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on testing and refactoring within the `go-getter` repository. Their contributions include refactoring S3 URL tests, and reverting a change related to symlink support in tar decompressors, as well as other fixes to tests. The user also added an export for the tar decompressor and fixed a test error related to git.
downloadinggolangdownloaderstringurl-parser
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