Mike Mueller
Staff Software Engineer at Patreon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mueller is a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with 23 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led backend and infrastructure work at Patreon and AWS—helping launch AWS OpenSearch Serverless and implementing shard autoscaling and replication in Rust—after a decade at Goodreads where he architected the service handling over a billion book reviews. Mike’s background spans systems, C/C++ tooling, and web stacks (Django, Rails), and includes founding a static-analysis tools company and consulting as a principal engineer, so he blends deep low-level expertise with product-facing delivery. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed and improved core functionality in the longstanding cgdb debugger frontend, reflecting a practical commitment to tooling and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him for operational excellence, mentoring, and untangling complex distributed problems while keeping teams focused on measurable outcomes.
23 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Physics, BS, Computer Science, Physics at University of Rhode Island
Github Skills (3)
c1710
c1110
code-optimization9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cgdb/cgdb
Jan 2003 - Dec 2013
Console front-end to the GNU debugger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 11 years
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the CGDB application. They addressed warnings, corrected file dialog behavior, and modified search functionality to wrap around the buffer. The user also made changes to tab stop handling, as well as general code cleanup and optimization. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue in the source code viewer.
frontendgnu
mmueller/clog
Dec 2012 - Mar 2020
Lightweight logger for C/C++ programs, implemented as a single header file.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 7 years 4 months
cpp
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