Mike Blaszczak
Sole Proprietor at Flatmouth Software
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolMike Blaszczak is a seasoned software engineer and sole proprietor with 11 years of recent focused experience and a multi-decade career building high-performance systems in C++, SQL, and large-scale server environments. He has driven core database and integration work at Microsoft and Valve, tuned and scaled distributed storage and monitoring services at Amazon and Oracle, and continues to consult on C++, C#, Java, and SQL through his Flatmouth Software practice. Mike combines hands-on performance optimization and profiling expertise with a history of shipping production telemetry, transactional key-value stores, and enterprise-grade monitoring that scaled to hundreds of thousands of metrics per second. An active open-source contributor, he has improved correctness and maintainability in the widely used AutoHotkey project by fixing subtle bugs and optimizing code. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs technical depth with talent-building experience from recruiting roles and has an unusual sideskill set in motorsports and race stewardship that informs his disciplined, safety-minded approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Bellevue Collegenone Computer Science / Math, none Computer Science / Math at University of HartfordSt Mary's International School
Japanese
Stackoverflow
1,500reputation
810kreached
52answers
11questions
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
scripting10
automation10
automations10
cprogramming-language10
autohotkey9
windows9
scripting-language8
hotkeys7
shell6
optimization6
linked-list6
sql6
command-line6
linux6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on improving the codebase of the AutoHotkey project. Their contributions included optimizing code by marking static arrays as `const`, removing an unused header file, and addressing a bug in the `GetEnvVarReliable` function related to data casting and buffer handling. The user also updated comments, enhancing code clarity and developer understanding. Their work focused on code correctness and maintainability.
scriptingwindowsc-plus-plusscripting-languageautohotkey
mikeblas/JankSQL
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
an awful little SQL database implementation
Contributions:1 release, 342 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
b-treedatabase-management-systemparsersql
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