Mike Dame
Senior Software Engineer at Odigos
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Dame is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining cloud-native observability and scheduling systems, currently focusing on automatic distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and eBPF. He has deep upstream open-source experience from roles at Google and Red Hat, contributing to flagship projects like Kubernetes, OpenShift, and the OpenTelemetry Collector and exporters for GCP. A maintainer in both OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes SIGs, he blends backend, operator, and DevOps expertise with hands-on Go engineering across schedulers, CRD tooling, and cluster operators. He’s shipped production features for Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus and led operator-level work like static pod revision pruning for OpenShift, showing an aptitude for both reliability and developer ergonomics. Colleagues can expect pragmatic, infrastructure-first design informed by a long history of upstream collaboration and complex cluster troubleshooting.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Regents w/Adv. Designation & Honors, Regents w/Adv. Designation & Honors at Ballston Spa High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, French
Github Skills (45)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
client-library10
tracer10
controller10
apidoc10
kubernetes-apiserver10
api-design10
testing10
command-line-interface10
run-time10
kubernetes-operator10
resource-management10
codebuild10
cicd10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/library-go
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
Helpers for going from apis and clients to useful runtime constructs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 53 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the `openshift/library-go` repository by implementing helper functions and commands related to the OpenShift platform, specifically focusing on static pod management and resource pruning. The commits demonstrate expertise in Go programming and Kubernetes resource management, including the creation and modification of ConfigMaps and Pods. Furthermore, the user's work includes building automation for the cluster, like the deployment of revision pruner pods.
apiruntimehelpersrestconstructs
kubernetes-sigs/descheduler
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Descheduler for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 588 reviews, 132 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike's commits primarily focus on updating dependencies, refactoring code, and removing deprecated APIs. They made changes to the project's dependencies by bumping Kubernetes versions. Further, they improved code by changing imports, fixing compile errors, and running generated scripts. The user also updated and added unit tests, along with removing deprecated testing files.
golangkubernetesk8s-sig-scheduling
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