Michael Stergianis is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building full-stack cloud-native tools and developer portals, currently contributing at Instacart from Oshawa, Ontario. He has driven releases and technical direction at VMware/Broadcom on the Tanzu Developer Portal, acting as technical lead, mentor, and CVE triage advocate while turning stakeholder needs into scoped product tracks. Comfortable across Go and TypeScript, he has hands-on experience refactoring unfamiliar codebases and improving backend interfaces—contributions that include meaningful backend work on the popular Octant Kubernetes UI project. Known for starting cross-team initiatives to tackle technical debt and for pairing with users to solve real pain points, he blends pragmatic engineering with a teacher’s mindset.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science - HBSc, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science - HBSc, Computer Science at University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the backend of the Octant project, focusing on internal components and interfaces related to Kubernetes cluster interaction. Their work involved moving interfaces to the `pkg` directory, separating data streaming functionality from websockets, and handling potential errors when closing browser tabs. They also made improvements to the build process by removing generated files.
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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Michael Stergianis - Senior Software Engineer at Instacart