Mike Beckerle
Member, PMC Chair at Owl Cyber Defense
Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMike Beckerle is a seasoned technology leader with 30+ years of engineering and architecture experience and 14 years in senior technical/principal roles, currently chairing the Apache Daffodil project at The Apache Software Foundation. He co-leads the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) standard and has driven both standards and production implementations across cybersecurity and data interoperability at Owl Cyber Defense and Tresys. His background spans CTO and principal architect roles at startups and enterprises—designing scalable computing systems at IBM, Ascential, and earlier-founded companies—bringing a rare blend of research-driven rigor and hands-on product delivery. Based in Falmouth, MA, he combines open-source stewardship with practical security-focused engineering, helping organizations parse, validate, and transform complex binary and textual data. An MIT-educated technologist, he often operates at the intersection of standards, tooling, and applied security—an accomplished but understated contributor to cross-industry data interoperability.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
735reputation
15kreached
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Github Skills (101)
std10
hadoop10
image-file10
network-protocol10
parquet10
transaction-log10
dfdl10
big-data10
edifact10
sql10
sax-parser10
apache10
java10
hive10
bit10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DFDLSchemas/GeoNames
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
Small application to convert GeoNames data from a giant file in a hard-to-parse format into multiple files of rational XML.
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years
geonamesxml
mbeckerle/DFDL
Jul 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:36 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 6 months
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