Michele Titolo is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems and platform tooling across companies like GitHub, Block, and Capital One. She blends deep technical expertise—especially in serverless, observability (OpenTelemetry/Datadog), and CI/CD—with business acumen from an Executive MBA to drive projects that others deem impossible. Michele has led high-impact migrations and automation efforts (e.g., Datadog APM adoption, service provisioning in seconds) and pioneered availability and reliability programs that measurably reduced manual operations. A pragmatic polyglot contributor, she also brings hands-on QA/test automation experience from notable open-source work on CocoaPods. Known for tackling ambiguous, high-risk initiatives, she consistently translates strategy into executable plans and stays several steps ahead of her teams.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Theatre Arts & Economics, BA Theatre Arts & Economics at Boston College
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Saint Mary's College of California
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push, 6 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michele's commits primarily focus on modifying and updating various unit tests within the CocoaPods project. They made changes to existing test files, adjusted test configurations, and added new test cases to ensure the functionality of different components, including the installer, sandbox, and external sources. The updates specifically address issues related to the migrator and new sandbox layout. The user's contributions demonstrate expertise in testing and maintaining the quality of the CocoaPods dependency manager.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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Michele Titolo - Principal Software Engineer at GitHub