Michael Welles
Principal Engineer at Istari Digital
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Welles is a Principal Engineer based in New York with 18 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams to build safety-critical, data-intensive systems across aerospace, healthcare, and consumer domains. He has led large, cross-functional teams and platform initiatives—most recently driving flight telemetry streaming, ML scoring, and reproducible model lineage at Raytheon—and previously shipped containerized Go microservices, federated GraphQL APIs, and mobile platforms at startups and enterprises. A pragmatic architect and operator, he combines deep backend expertise (Spark, Databricks, Python) with mobile and CI/CD fluency from roles at Apple, Medidata, and Huge. He’s an active contributor to notable open-source tooling, improving SwiftLint’s configurability for real-world codebases, reflecting a focus on developer ergonomics and maintainability. Known for turning complex regulatory and operational constraints into auditable, production-ready pipelines, he balances technical rigor with rapid delivery. His background in history and a career spanning startups to defense primes him to translate ambiguous problems into disciplined engineering outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA History, BA History at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (12)
linting10
swift10
static-analysis10
software-quality10
objective-c6
webview6
webkit6
coding-style6
iphone6
cocoa6
ruby6
plugin6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
realm/SwiftLint
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the `SwiftLint` project by implementing and refactoring rule configurations, particularly related to line length and cyclomatic complexity. They modified the `LineLengthConfiguration` to include options for ignoring comments and function declarations. The user also refactored code to use an option set for line length options and updated configuration handling. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the rule's configurability and flexibility.
linterswift-package-managerbazellintingcode-quality
mlwelles/BeaconScanner
Apr 2014 - Aug 2017
iBeacon Scanning Utility App for OSX
Contributions:6 releases, 51 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 4 months
ibeaconmacososxscanning
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