Mike Schinkel
President at NewClarity Consulting LLC
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMike Schinkel is a seasoned DevOps and GoLang-focused software engineer with 25+ years of development experience and 14 years of focused industry practice, currently leading NewClarity Consulting to improve CI/CD, testing, and developer productivity. He has hands-on expertise with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Packer, VMware, and cloud build/deploy pipelines, and has automated complex build pipelines that produce ISOs and OVAs for enterprise distribution. Mike has shipped Kubernetes operators and debugging tooling (including local Delve-based workflows) and built a proprietary External DNS provider and CLI in Go for internal DNS systems. He contributes to well-known open-source projects like the AMP WordPress plugin and php.net, where he improved compatibility and maintainability—demonstrating both backend PHP chops and modern Go practices. Known for pragmatic, test-first engineering patterns, he blends scripting, CI automation, and SQL fluency to make teams faster and less error-prone. Based in Atlanta, he pairs deep infrastructure know-how with a knack for simplifying thorny local development and release workflows.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSME, Mechanical Engineering, BSME, Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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php
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jquery
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jquery-selectors
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Github Skills (24)
debug10
maintenance10
ampl10
wordpress10
google-amp10
autoload10
refactor10
php10
code-cleanup10
refactoring10
web-development10
jquery9
documentation9
sanitization9
html9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
php/web-php
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
The www.php.net site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the PHP website's codebase by addressing several issues related to code quality and functionality. They modified code to align with PHP 8 standards, including removing deprecated functions and updating code to utilize HTTPS URLs. Furthermore, they focused on improving code structure, as seen in their changes involving function return statements and HTML attribute updates. These changes reflect a focus on maintaining code quality, addressing deprecation warnings, and improving the website's security and performance.
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ampproject/amp-wp
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 37 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on refactoring the AMP plugin's autoloader to use static methods and improving the codebase's maintainability. They modified the autoloader to support PHP 5.2 compatibility and added several PHPDoc headers for method documentation. Additionally, they modified and documented sanitizers. The user also addressed issues by removing unused variables and cleaning up code related to embedded content handling.
reservation-systemwordpress-apiwordpressphpwordpress-admin
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