Mike Pountney
Director Of Software Engineering at Astronomer
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Pountney is a seasoned Director of Software Engineering with 16 years of experience leading cloud, infrastructure, and developer productivity teams, now heading Cloud, Infrastructure & Dataplane Management at Astronomer. He blends hands-on backend engineering—contributions to notable open-source projects like the Ruby fog cloud library and maintaining Go tooling—with senior leadership roles at HashiCorp and Yelp, guiding SRE and developer productivity initiatives at scale. Mike’s background in mathematics and long history in maker communities (founding roles in BuildBrighton and Brighton Mini Maker Faire) reveal a practical tinkerer’s mindset that informs pragmatic, well-documented engineering solutions. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he’s known for modernizing legacy projects (Go modules refactors, API integrations) and for bridging developer ergonomics with reliable cloud operations.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (12)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
go10
api10
fog10
apidoc10
ruby10
testing9
bump9
bumpversion9
versioning9
bump2version9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
go-jira/jira
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
simple jira command line client in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 27 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on refactoring the project to use go modules and updating dependencies. They switched import paths from gopkg.in to github.com, demonstrating a strong understanding of Go's module system. They also resolved merge conflicts and updated the project's version.
command-linegojira
fog/fog
Dec 2013 - Sep 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the `fog/fog` library, specifically enhancing the vCloud Director integration. Their work involved implementing new features such as renaming vApps, adding a new request for Org vDC network creation, and improving the get_network method. The user also addressed several bugs and made general improvements to the project's tests, mocks, and documentation, ensuring compatibility and accuracy. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the vCloud Director API and the Fog library's architecture.
cloud-servicesruby
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