Michael Seibel
Software Engineer at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Seibel is a seasoned software engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience designing user-centered, multi-platform messaging and editor software used by tens of millions worldwide. As principal author of the Pine and Alpine messaging systems and the Pico text editor at the University of Washington, he has guided their evolution from Unix timesharing through DOS/Windows ports to web-based interfaces, emphasizing approachable UIs and scalable architectures. He combines deep expertise in distributed software, Internet standards (including early IMAP involvement), and system administration with a mathematician’s rigor from a UW BS. Based in Seattle, Michael favors elegant, practical solutions that make complex networked tools discoverable and maintainable for large, diverse user bases.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at University of Washington
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Github Skills (28)
provisioning10
slack-bot9
django9
soap-api9
rest8
soap8
displays8
canvas-lms7
sis7
javascript7
lti7
css7
rest-client7
api6
ws-api6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uw-it-aca/uw-mailman3-core
Aug 2021 - May 2026
Docker build for UW-customized mailman3
Contributions:5 reviews, 236 PRs, 288 pushes in 4 years 10 months
customizeddocker-builddockermailman3
uw-it-aca/actions
Jan 2021 - Apr 2026
UWIT Student & Educational Technology Services github-actions workflows
Contributions:4 releases, 14 reviews, 82 PRs in 5 years 3 months
githubaction-workflow
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