Mike Olivas
Principal Technical Advisor at Liquibase
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike Olivas is a seasoned technology leader and Principal Technical Advisor at Liquibase with over six years in technical and leadership roles focused on database release automation and CI/CD for cloud and distributed environments. He blends deep hands-on engineering—contributing to the core Liquibase project to fix nuanced cross-database migration issues like MSSQL varchar(max) and CLOB handling—with strategic solutions architecture that embeds DevOps practices, intelligent rules, and guardrails. Based in Austin, he has a long history of bridging sales, professional services, and engineering to help DBAs, DevOps teams, and developers adopt automated, auditable deployment workflows. Mike’s background stretches back to IBM and large-scale collaboration and customer-engagement platforms, giving him unusual depth in both enterprise integration and product-led technical sales. He is particularly skilled at translating complex database compatibility challenges into test-backed, repeatable automation that reduces risk across heterogeneous environments.
6 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (22)
database-migrations10
databases10
liquibase10
java10
javas10
sql10
database-migration10
database10
testing9
groovy9
database-administration9
spock9
database-management9
mssql8
postgresql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
liquibase/liquibase
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
Main Liquibase Source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 94 commits, 70 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the `liquibase/liquibase` project by addressing issues related to database migrations, specifically around handling `varchar(max)` data types in the context of different database systems. The commits focused on correcting how Liquibase handles the `varchar(max)` data type in MSSQL, incorporating additional information like collate specifications. Furthermore, they added and updated unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of CLOB data types across various database platforms.
sqlserverdatabase-migrationscontinuous-integrationcontinuous-deploymentdatabase
molivasdat/Snowflake
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 160 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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