Michelle Mcfarland
Software Engineer - Enterprise Cloud at Atlassian
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Mcfarland is a software engineer at Atlassian with five years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and a background as a science teacher, which informs her user-focused, accessible approach to product design. She transitioned from teaching into engineering via a CS degree at Oregon State and hands-on work at InfluxData, where she ported and refactored core InfluxDB functionality to the 2.x codebase—improving command interfaces and diagnostics for a widely used time-series database. Based in Seattle, she specializes in making complex systems more usable and maintainable, with a knack for clear documentation and tooling around observability (TSI index reporting and WAL inspection). Her blend of pedagogy and backend engineering helps her explain technical trade-offs clearly and build developer-friendly solutions at enterprise scale.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at Western Washington UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.70, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.70 at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (8)
databases10
go10
influxdb10
database10
command-line9
cli9
refactoring9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 13 commits, 21 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily focused on porting and adapting existing functionalities from an older version of the InfluxDB codebase (1.x) to the newer 2.x version. Their work involved refactoring code to align with the updated Cobra command syntax and file structure. They also made improvements to the clarity of output and help documentation, demonstrating a focus on usability and maintainability. The user's contributions involved interacting with the core database functionality, specifically TSI index reporting and WAL file inspection, adapting them to the new version.
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
mcfarlm3/mcfarlm3
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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