Mike Piccolo
Founder at FullStack Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Piccolo is a founder and seasoned backend engineer with 12 years of experience building and simplifying complex production systems, currently leading Motia—an open-source AI agent orchestration framework—and serving as Co-Founder & CTO and board member at FullStack Labs. He specializes in backend orchestration, durable execution, event-driven architectures, and running AI systems in production, with a practical focus on reducing operational fragility as systems scale. Mike’s hands-on background includes contributions to notable open-source Rust projects like diesel and neon, reflecting deep systems-level expertise and a knack for making low-level tooling more testable and debuggable. He combines product-minded engineering with consulting experience across ERPs, integrations, and platform work, and often frames orchestration primitives the way React reframed the DOM for front-end developers. Based in Austin, he pairs technical rigor with founder-level judgment to turn distributed complexity into composable developer abstractions.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Applied Arts and Sciences Business Administration (Management), Bachelor of Science in Applied Arts and Sciences Business Administration (Management) at San Diego State University
Github Skills (11)
testing10
nodejs10
rust10
orm10
query-builder10
neon10
sql9
javascript9
postgresql7
mysql7
sqlite7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
diesel-rs/diesel
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 25 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the `diesel-rs/diesel` repository, an ORM and query builder for Rust, by adding enhancements for testing and improving code functionality. These commits include the integration of the `dotenv` crate for test environment configuration, enabling tests to run correctly. The user also implemented the `times` function to improve compatibility. Finally, the user added a debugging query builder, along with macro, to simplify the SQL debug workflow.
querymysqlrustsqlbuilder
neon-bindings/neon
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on setting up and testing native Node.js modules using Rust, specifically within the context of the Neon bindings library. Their contributions included the initial setup of a test suite, implementing basic functionality for handling strings, integers, arrays, and objects within the Rust modules, and integrating these functionalities with JavaScript tests. Further work involved refactoring the code, addressing issues, and adding additional functionalities for floats and more complex Javascript classes.
js-modulesrustnode-jsjavascriptnode-native
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