Mike Mazur
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mazur is a pragmatic Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience leading teams to build sustainable, test-driven products at companies from startups to Stripe. He blends hands-on engineering with coaching—advocating refactoring, pair programming, and experiments to turn product vision into validated, valuable features. Comfortable across languages and stacks (C++, Ruby/Rails, Scala, Python, JVM, front-end frameworks), he prioritizes the simplest effective solution and the right tool for the job. Mike has a history of shipping backend improvements in notable open-source projects like OpenSimulator, where he fixed core scripting and compiler issues, and has led engineering orgs as VP and principal across multiple firms. Based in Canada with a Computer Engineering background, he combines systems-level debugging experience (embedded and HPC) with modern web delivery and product-minded leadership.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at The University of Calgary
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Github Skills (16)
ls10
script10
csharp10
opensimulator10
linden-scripting-language10
dotnet-core10
inventory-management9
inventory-management-system9
compiler-design8
scheme6
rspec6
unit-testing6
firefox6
python6
lisp6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
opensim/opensim
Jul 2008 - Jun 2009
This is a github mirror of the opensim git repository (synced every 10 minutes). The cannonical master is on http://opensimulator.org/viewgit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:155 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on fixing and improving the LSL (Linden Scripting Language) script engine within the OpenSim project. Their contributions included addressing a string truncation issue in SimChat, implementing functionality for handling LSL types, improving the accuracy of compiler error reporting, and adding features such as the ability to cast between different LSL data types. They also fixed issues related to inventory management and for-loop syntax.
git-repositoryrustopensimulatormastergithub-mirror
mikem/dot-SpaceVim.d
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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