Mike Anabitarte is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native platforms and leading engineering teams. He blends hands-on backend work in Scala, Akka and Spark with full-stack experience (Angular, Flutter) and deep familiarity with databases from MySQL and MongoDB to Cassandra and BigQuery. As technical lead at Poshly he modernized the stack to cut infrastructure costs by 10x while improving quality and processes, a change that helped enable acquisition by Suzy Inc. An avid learner and open-source contributor, he updated MongoDB integrations in the prominent Alpakka project to support evolving drivers and Akka Streams patterns. Comfortable running remote, international teams, he excels at turning ambiguous product goals into pragmatic, production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Software Engineering at Universidad Pública de Navarra
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science (5th year), Master of Science (MS) Computer Science (5th year) at Yonsei University
1º de Bachillerato Científico-Técnico, 1º de Bachillerato Científico-Técnico at Arlington High School, Dallas, TX.
Alpakka is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Akka.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the MongoDB integration within the Alpakka project. Their work involved updating the MongoDB driver, migrating code to use generics, and adapting code to accommodate changes in the driver's API across multiple versions. They implemented and tested various MongoDB operations using Akka Streams, including insert, update, and delete operations, with both single and batched data. The user also modified the project dependencies to reflect the updated MongoDB driver versions.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.