Mike Bourgeous
YouTube Creator And Open Source Developer
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Bourgeous is a seasoned software engineer and open source creator with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems, observability pipelines, and high-scale network infrastructure. He has led large operational efforts—migrating a 4TB+ Postgres database to RDS, consolidating observability platforms, and designing a reverse-proxy sharding system for 10M+ concurrent TCP connections—while mentoring engineers and revamping onboarding processes. Alongside production engineering roles at fintech and e-commerce companies, he produces technical YouTube content and publishes DSP research and tooling, pairing practical systems work with signal-processing curiosity. Based in Salt Lake City, he combines hands-on development across Ruby/Scala/Postgres/AWS with a knack for translating complex math-and-sound research into educational open-source projects and visualizations.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMITx
Stackoverflow
1,589reputation
164kreached
13answers
7questions
postgresql
top-5%
migration
top-5%
Github Skills (149)
payment-gateway10
sound-effects10
duplicates10
realms10
sound-synthesis10
audio-effect10
async10
payment-integration10
audio10
notification10
payment10
currency10
sketchup10
hash10
marketplace10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mike-bourgeous/mb-util
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
OS- and data-manipulation utility functions not otherwise categorizable
Contributions:15 PRs, 44 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years
manipulationutility-functionstuplecategorizableutility
nitrogenlogic/nlutils
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Nitrogen Logic C Utility Library
Contributions:83 commits, 15 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 years 2 months
nitrogenlogicutility-libraryc
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