Mike Busch
Principal Engineer Heroku Runtime at Salesforce
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMike Busch is a Principal Engineer specializing in Heroku Runtime with 16 years of experience building and operating cloud platforms and developer-facing infrastructure. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he combines deep production experience at Heroku and Salesforce with hands-on engineering roles across startups and enterprises like Groupon and Nationwide. He has a strong background in teaching and mentorship from his time as a lead instructor, which informs his collaborative approach to designing resilient, scalable runtime systems. Mike brings practical expertise in Java and web platforms dating back to early enterprise work and a track record of shepherding systems from prototype to production. Notably, he blends platform engineering rigor with classroom-tested communication skills, making complex infrastructure accessible to engineers and teams.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Kettering Fairmont High SchoolBS Computer Science & Engineering, BS Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (52)
middleware10
mux10
heroku-cli10
gorilla10
html10
heroku10
router9
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
http9
golang9
webserver9
shell8
activerecord8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mikelikesbikes/dotfiles
Sep 2009 - Oct 2019
Contributions:276 commits, 27 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 2 months
bluegills-2014/DBC-YOLO-FLOW
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 48 comments in 1 year 5 months
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