Mick Tarsel
Engineering Lead For Github Actions On IBM Power Hardware at IBM Club Oregon
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMick Tarsel is an engineering lead and Senior Linux Cloud Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in Linux networking, virtualization, and enabling open-source projects on IBM Power hardware. He currently leads GitHub Actions support for IBM Power and spends much of his time debugging Red Hat OpenShift and scaling network connectivity for customer environments on IBM Cloud. His background spans liaison roles between IBM, Red Hat, and open-source communities, helping projects like Alpine, Bazel, Calico, and OpenTofu run on ppc64le. Mick’s work blends hands-on kernel and SDN troubleshooting with infrastructure publishing—he’s a published author in both marine science (ICES Journal) and an IBM Redbook on Power modernization. Based in Oregon, he volunteers teaching GNU/Linux principles to high school students and brings a rare mix of data-center networking depth and community-focused open-source advocacy.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at Clarkson University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
twitch10
coreos10
podman10
alpine-linux10
commons10
crc10
openshift10
documentation10
node-cluster10
fedora10
development-tools10
linux9
tooling9
seccomp9
esxi9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mtarsel/mtarsel.github.io
Mar 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
mtarsel/Django-MOOC
Oct 2013 - Feb 2022
Contributions:213 commits, 1 push in 8 years 5 months
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