Michael Vierling
Software Architect at Helium Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Vierling is a software architect with 14+ years of experience building high-performance cloud, FinTech, OS and file-system software from the kernel to microservices. He designed the world’s most accurate automated valuation model (AVM) for real estate, and has repeatedly translated research-grade ideas into production services that prioritize simplicity and rapid delivery. His background includes low-level systems engineering (C/C++, kernel and file-system design) and modern distributed systems using C#, F#, Erlang, Rust, Python, gRPC, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure). At Helium and Nova Labs he implemented core LoRaWAN protocol libraries and influenced protocol changes to improve security and scaling for a near‑million gateway network. He blends functional programming and applied mathematics into FinTech and ML infrastructure, making him comfortable across data, protocol, and cloud layers. Based in San Francisco, he’s an engineer-architect who connects technical details to business outcomes while favoring elegant, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (66)
miner10
protoc10
protocol-buffers10
helium10
protobuf10
serialization10
rpc10
marshalling9
felix9
golang9
lorawan9
security9
proxy9
networking9
docker9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
helium/erlang-lorawan
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:23 reviews, 50 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 1 month
mikev/roofflow
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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