Mike Olson
Staff Engineer at Take Command
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolMike Olson is a Staff Engineer with 12+ years of experience building APIs, developer tooling, and data-driven applications, currently based in Madison, WI. He blends deep database and backend expertise (MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, eXist XML DB) with hands-on work in TypeScript/NodeJS and Ruby to deliver scalable enterprise REST and GraphQL services. As an engineering manager and technical product owner he drove API traffic growth into the tens of thousands of monthly transactions and established a developer experience team and monorepo to streamline delivery. His background in linguistics and TEI/XML tooling (including the HisTEI Oxygen framework and tokenizers) gives him unusual strength in structuring and extracting value from complex textual data. Comfortable switching between content and software domains, he is a self-starter, multilingual communicator (Dutch, German), and a pragmatic mentor who shapes both architecture and team practices.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Germanic Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Master's Degree Germanic Languages Literatures and Linguistics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Historical Sociolinguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Historical Sociolinguistics at Utrecht UniversityFulbright Research Grant Dutch/Flemish Language and Literature, Fulbright Research Grant Dutch/Flemish Language and Literature at University of AmsterdamBachelor's Degree German Language and Literature English Language and Literature, Bachelor's Degree German Language and Literature English Language and Literature at Georgia State University
English, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
196reputation
10kreached
10answers
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Github Skills (21)
xslt10
historical10
xml-editor10
xml10
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
tei9
creative-commons9
html9
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
nested-attributes6
flash6
apache-flex6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
odaata/HisTEI
May 2014 - Jul 2016
A framework for Oxygen XML Editor allowing researchers to transcribe historical documents in TEI
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 134 commits in 2 years 2 months
oxygen-xmloxygenxmlhistorical-documentsxml-editor
odaata/todo-list-exercise
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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