Mike Dodge
Staff Platform Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike Dodge is a Staff Platform Engineer in Portland with 12 years of hands-on experience automating and managing mixed client environments at scale. He specializes in macOS automation and client platform engineering, with deep scripting skills (Python, Bash, AppleScript) and expertise in Chef—having contributed upstream changes to Chef’s macOS service provider. At Facebook he built high-leverage automation for device fleet management, mobile device integration, and cross-platform IT tooling, often owning the highest escalation path for complex client issues. His work on Meta’s IT-CPE tooling and Chef demonstrates practical infrastructure-as-code chops for macOS fleet configuration and launchd/session management. Known for turning repeat manual tasks into resilient, auditable automation, he blends systems-level troubleshooting with product-minded tooling. He brings an unusual mix of desktop support roots and platform engineering, enabling pragmatic solutions that scale from a helpdesk ticket to company-wide deployment.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
scripting10
configuration-management10
bash10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
script10
system-administration10
sh10
chef-solo10
macos10
automations10
shell10
devops10
service-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/IT-CPE
Mar 2014 - Jun 2022
Meta's Client Platform Engineering tools. Some of the tools we have written to help manage our fleet of client systems.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:98 commits, 84 PRs, 71 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to infrastructure as code and automation tasks, evidenced by the creation and modification of shell scripts for managing and configuring macOS systems. Their work involved setting up launch daemons and modifying configuration files to manage client systems. The commits demonstrate expertise in scripting for system administration tasks, with focus on managing and syncing the codebase, as well as installing and configuring packages on macOS.
metaengineeringfleetplatform-engineeringtools-engineering
chef/chef
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:32 commits, 7 PRs, 50 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike implemented changes to the Chef Infra macosx service provider, adding resource parameters to manage LaunchAgents as the console user. They introduced options for plist and session_type configurations. The changes involved modifications to the Ruby code within `macosx.rb` and `service.rb`, including adjustments to load, unload, and set service status using `launchctl`. The commits also involved unit test updates and adjustments to support the new logic.
automationchef-infrachefdevopscfgmgt
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