Michelle Stack
Engineering Program Manager at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Stack is an Engineering Program Manager in Apple’s battery organization with 19 years of technical and cross-disciplinary program leadership spanning early-stage product development and large-scale distributed systems. She combines hands-on engineering experience—contributing to major open-source projects like Apache HBase, Hadoop, and FoundationDB—with a track record of managing hardware-software teams and stakeholder-facing programs. At Apple she progressed from project manager for battery reliability to leading broader engineering programs, applying systems thinking to product and reliability challenges. Her background in electrical engineering and DIY power management for UAVs gives her uncommon fluency across firmware, backend infrastructure, and hardware reliability. Known for translating complex technical tradeoffs into auditable plans, she also brings practical automation skills from past QA and tooling work. Based in San Francisco, she excels at bridging engineering depth with client and vendor relationships to drive products from prototype to production.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (30)
foundationdb10
hbase10
spark10
c-language10
key-value-store10
databases10
kafka10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
java10
javas10
wal10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
database10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hbase-operator-tools
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
Apache HBase Operator Tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 85 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michelle contributed to the HBase Operator Tools, focusing on the development of HBCK2, a tool for repairing HBase clusters. Their work included adding an HBCK2 tool with command-line processing for Hbck Service Interface calls, and implementing features like setting table states and the ability to bypass procedures. They also addressed file system corruption checking. The user demonstrated skills in Java, and knowledge of HBase internals and administration.
hbaseoperatordatabasejava
apache/hbase
Feb 2008 - Sep 2022
Apache HBase
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:601 reviews, 8506 commits, 668 PRs in 14 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily contributed to the Apache HBase back-end. Their work involved fixing bugs, optimizing performance, and refactoring existing code to improve memory usage. They made changes to core components like the WAL (Write Ahead Log) implementation, and also addressed issues related to the hbase:meta table, showing experience in database internals. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the stability and efficiency of the HBase system.
hbasedatabasejava
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