Mike Bland
Developer Experience Platform Architect
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Bland is a Developer Experience Platform Architect with 12+ years of experience driving sustainable testing and quality culture across large engineering organizations. A former Google senior engineer and leader of Apple’s Quality Culture Initiative, he specializes in cross-functional change, automated testing, UNIX/Linux/macOS development, and distributed systems. He has a track record of creating volunteer-driven movements (Grouplets/Test Certified) that scale practices through training, embedded advocates, and tooling—efforts that produced thousands of training sessions and widespread adoption at large companies. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on federal-facing projects like the U.S. Web Design System and helped harden auth proxies and data-driven websites. Known as an “Instigator,” he blends hands-on coding and platform design with organizational strategy to make the right engineering practices the easy choice.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Christopher Newport University
English
Github Skills (41)
json10
apim10
site-design10
ssl10
tls1210
fetchr10
vulnerability10
uswds10
testing10
fetcher10
go-testing10
tls1310
hmac-authentication10
ruby10
mtls10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bitly/oauth2_proxy
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Github or other provider
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 22 PRs, 100 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike focused on enhancing the oauth2_proxy's functionality and stability. Their work includes adding more robust error handling and creating tests to improve code quality. They extracted an API package and integrated provider support to generalize the proxy to support other OAuth2 providers. The user also added features to sign upstream requests with HMAC and implemented cookie auto-refresh, enhancing the overall security and user experience.
authenticationproviderproxyreverse-proxy
18F/18f.gsa.gov
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
The 18F website
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 29 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on updating the 18F website to fetch data from the 18F Public Hub API. They refactored the import process to use JSON data and incorporated new data sources for team and PIF projects. Furthermore, they implemented changes to display PIF data dynamically on different pages and updated plugins for data integration. These updates streamlined data fetching and improved the site's ability to present information from the public API.
federalistcssjavascript18f
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