Mike Helmick
Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMike Helmick is a Distinguished Engineer with 20 years building and leading large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, and secure storage services, now shaping Kubernetes efforts at LinkedIn. He combines deep research roots (PhD) and academic teaching with hands-on engineering leadership across Google, Amazon, and Roblox, including founding an outcomes-driven LMS used in higher education. At Google he led critical serverless control planes, drove compliance efforts like HIPAA for App Engine, and was the lead for the widely used Google Exposure Notifications server—contributing backend, API and DevOps work to a high-profile public-health open-source project. Known for pragmatic technical leadership and multi-team management, he excels at turning complex distributed architectures into operational, secure platforms.
20 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering at University of CincinnatiB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Xavier UniversityM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Northern Kentucky University
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Github Skills (11)
go10
postgresql10
devops10
database-design10
api-design10
gcp9
exposure-notification9
google-cloud-run6
docker6
google-cloud-platform6
gcloud6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google/exposure-notifications-server
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Exposure Notification Reference Server | Covid-19 Exposure Notifications
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:39 releases, 348 reviews, 358 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the server-side infrastructure and core API features of the exposure notification system. They added data models and SQL schema definitions, set up the configuration for the publishing API, and implemented the foundational publish API logic, including the use of a test harness. Furthermore, they created build instructions and set up build configurations. The user's focus appears to be on building and maintaining the backend components, API interfaces, and the supporting infrastructure for the system.
exposure-notificationnotificationsnotificationexposureexposure-notifications
mikehelmick/eventing
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Open source specification and implementation of Knative event binding and delivery
Contributions:70 pushes, 11 branches in 10 months
specificationknativedispatcherkubernetesspecifications
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