Mike Laspina
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Laspina is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling instrumentation and platform software, most recently contributing to New Relic’s PHP APM agent where he combined C-level PHP extension work with complex cross-platform build automation. Based in Portland, he brings deep practical knowledge of observability, concurrent programming (currently exploring Go), and performance-sensitive systems that turn raw telemetry into efficient metrics. His background spans enterprise platform architecture at GE to hands-on product maintenance and automated testing for distributed client systems, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and developer-tool empathy. Colleagues describe him as a polyglot technologist who favors pragmatic solutions and continuous learning, particularly around data visualization and extracting insights from production systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Castleton University
Github Skills (26)
java10
sdk10
opentelemetry10
otel10
observability9
distributed-tracing9
java-agent8
instrumentation7
opencensus7
vagrant7
ansible6
docker6
ruby6
virtualization5
automation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikelaspina/Emacs
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
mikelaspina/histogrammar-rs
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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