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.
12 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 (103)
async10
graphic10
notification10
hash10
coercion10
networking10
data-validation9
validation9
postgresql9
ruby9
migration9
chrome-extension9
multi-tenant9
cross-platform9
marketplace9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mike-bourgeous/mb-geometry
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Recreational Ruby tools for graphics and geometry.
Contributions:289 commits, 24 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 months
graphicruby
mike-bourgeous/mb-util
Apr 2021 - Jan 2026
OS- and data-manipulation utility functions not otherwise categorizable
Contributions:15 PRs, 49 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 9 months
manipulationutility-functionstuplecategorizableutility
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