Mike Drakos
Team Lead, Software Engineering at ActiveState
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Drakos is a pragmatic engineering leader with a decade of experience building and operating backend systems in Go and Python, currently leading a team of five at ActiveState where he balances hands-on coding with technical direction and stakeholder communication. He has a track record of delivering full-lifecycle features and core infrastructure—shipping secure container pipelines, image catalogs, and enterprise import systems—while driving architectural decisions across cloud-native stacks on Kubernetes and AWS. Comfortable across CI/CD, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and observability tools, he also mentors engineers and participates in hiring to grow durable teams. Notably, his background spans both research-driven tooling and production-grade multithreaded systems, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and pragmatic operational experience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc. (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc. (Honours), Computer Science at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
Github Skills (19)
command-line-interface10
system-information10
psutil9
golang9
go8
cloud-foundry8
foundry8
cli6
expect5
testing4
emulation3
cross-platform2
linux2
windows2
integration-testing2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MDrakos/mdrakos.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 PRs, 112 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 10 months
ActiveState/cloudfoundry-cli-archived
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4006 commits in 3 years 4 months
golangcloud-foundryfoundrycli
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