Michael Sullivan
Senior Growth Marketer at Buildr
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Sullivan is a Senior Growth Marketer and co-founder at Buildr with 12 years of experience helping General Contractors adopt construction-specific CRM and integrated workforce planning to improve proposals and resource allocation. Based in Los Angeles, he blends product-led growth, hands-on marketing, and a deep appreciation for developer workflows—evidenced by open-source contributions to notable Ruby projects like feedjira and httparty where he implemented features, logging, and modernized test suites. He focuses on making enterprise software approachable (unlimited seats, Day One usability) so cross-functional teams stop being siloed and start driving revenue together. Michael combines startup grit with technical fluency, able to translate engineering improvements into measurable growth outcomes for construction businesses.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Biola UniversityUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
testing10
parserator10
rspec10
logging10
parser10
test-automation10
httparty10
faraday9
cucumber9
ruby-on-rails6
resque6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
feedjira/feedjira
Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
A feed parsing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 29 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael implemented new features and configurations for the feed parsing library. Their contributions included adding functionality to strip whitespace from XML, allowing for more flexible feed processing. They also introduced configurations for requests, such as timeout and user agent settings. Furthermore, the user added logging capabilities to improve the debugging and monitoring of the feed parsing process.
rssparsingrss-parserfeedparser
jnunemaker/httparty
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
:tada: Makes http fun again!
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on updating and converting existing test specifications within the project. This involved upgrading RSpec versions, refactoring test syntax, and ensuring tests aligned with current project standards. Code changes include modifications to the `spec_helper.rb` file, conversion of specs to RSpec 3.1.7 syntax using Transpec, and fixing of various spec files, including `ssl_spec.rb`, `connection_adapter_spec.rb`, and `httparty_spec.rb`. The user also made changes to the Cucumber features, updating to RSpec 3.1 syntax and fixing issues in the `response_spec.rb`.
httpartyruby
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