MichaelĀ Spiegel
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Hushmesh Inc.
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Spiegel is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance, concurrent systems and secure data pipelines, currently based in Charlottesville, VA. He combines deep academic expertise (PhD in Computer Science) in lock-free, cache-conscious data structures with hands-on production work across fintech, defense research, and streaming analytics. At Capital One he improved build pipelines and Go practices; at Two Six he led DARPA subcontract integration for physically provable unidirectional data flows; and he now applies that systems-first mindset at Hushmesh. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed critical issues in the widely used google/go-github client, improving API correctness and data integrity. He also mentors extensively as an independent tutor, with 800+ hours and a 4.9/5 rating, reflecting his patient, pedagogical approach to complex topics.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Swarthmore CollegeM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
json10
go10
api10
github-api10
apidoc10
golang9
testing8
github8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/go-github
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements related to the GitHub API interaction library. Their work involved modifying code related to branch protection, dismissal restrictions, and JSON marshaling for API requests. They also refactored code to use int64 for IDs within the organization's service and reverted a change related to pull request numbers, demonstrating a focus on API functionality and data structure integrity. Furthermore, the user added a NodeID to IssueComments and MarketplacePlanAccount, suggesting improvements for the retrieval of internal data associated with specific objects.
golangapigithub-api-v3api-v3go-library
json-structure/json-structure
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:87 commits, 66 pushes, 2 branches in 16 days
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