Michael Yankus
Senior DevOps Engineer at Live Oak Bank
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Michael Yankus is a Senior DevOps Engineer with nine years of professional experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently driving infrastructure and delivery at Live Oak Bank from Wilmington, NC. He began in telecommunications and mobile messaging performance testing and evolved into a Java-focused developer and DevOps specialist with deep Unix and Windows administration skills. Michael has contributed to high-profile open source projects in the .NET and Azure ecosystems, improving build infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and code generation tooling—a background that underscores his cross-platform build and automation expertise. His work spans hands-on build script refactoring, test-suite management, and resolving subtle file-casing and dependency issues that break production flows. Comfortable in both backend development and operational roles, he blends software performance testing rigor with pragmatic automation to reduce friction between development and release. An early career as a pilot/mechanic and an MS in Computer Science add an unusual practical-rigorous perspective to his systems thinking.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Southern Polytechnic State UniversityBS, Aviation Maintenance Management, BS, Aviation Maintenance Management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/autorest.csharp
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Extension for AutoRest (https://github.com/Azure/autorest) that generates C# code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 615 commits, 155 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focus on modifying and extending the C# code generation process within the AutoRest.CSharp.V3 project. Their contributions involve adding support for handling collections of constants as method parameters, refactoring code related to client model generation, and implementing mechanisms for serialization and deserialization of models. The commits showcase an understanding of the code generation pipeline, model design, and the intricacies of generating C# code from specifications.
dotnetautorestcsharpazuredotnet-core
Azure/azure-powershell
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 2434 commits, 307 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits focused on fixing and improving the testing framework of the Azure PowerShell module for managing Azure resources. They made changes to test projects to address issues with SQL tests, loading two different test frameworks within the same solution and fixing signing build issues. The contributions involved working with the build scripts. The changes show an active involvement with CI/CD aspects, as well as the core logic of the PowerShell module.
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