Mike Porter
Associate Software Developer
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Porter is an Associate Software Developer with 11 years of experience who blends pragmatic engineering with strong communication skills honed as a former teacher. He builds maintainable, performance-focused systems across JavaScript, Java, and Python stacks—having cut simulation data transfer times from ~500ms to 1–2ms using NumPy/Pandas, ctypes and C++ modules during a Naval Surface Warfare Center internship. Comfortable in frontend frameworks (React, Angular) and backend ecosystems (Spring, JPA), he also contributes to open-source projects such as Audiveris and Oppia, improving GUI rendering and edge-case robustness. Mike holds an MS in Computer Science, maintains a technical portfolio at mgporter.github.io, and brings a detail-oriented, cross-disciplinary mindset shaped by experience in translation, teaching, and music.
11 years of coding experience
BM, Music Composition; Piano Performance, BM, Music Composition; Piano Performance at Capital UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at West Chester University of PennsylvaniaMSEd, Intercultural Communication (Educational Linguistics), MSEd, Intercultural Communication (Educational Linguistics) at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Github Skills (117)
shutdown10
worldmap10
maven-plugin9
gradle-plugin9
discord-bot9
jackson8
dao8
steambot8
plex8
adaptation8
addon8
service-client8
jax-rs8
visualization8
steam-api8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mikeporterdev/LaTeX-CV
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:29 releases, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months
mikeporterdev/nanodlp-ui
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
nanoDLP user interface - ATHENA Version
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 58 branches in 11 months
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