Mike Sindelar is a seasoned production planner and operations professional with 10 years of experience and a decade-plus background in industrial maintenance, logistics, and property management. Currently a Senior Production Planner at Tyson Foods, he blends hands-on knowledge from 10 years as an industrial electrician with practical supply chain and inventory management experience gained managing warehouses and shipping operations. Mike contributes to data engineering in open-source—improving reliability and S3/Elasticsearch indexing in the Quilt data mesh project—bringing a pragmatic, troubleshooting mindset to data pipelines. Based in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, he’s comfortable translating field-level constraints into production schedules and process improvements. His rare mix of electrical trade skills, hands-on warehouse leadership, and experience tuning data processing pipelines helps him spot operational inefficiencies others miss.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
North High School
Associate of Applied Sciences, Associate of Applied Sciences at Western Iowa Tech Community College
Quilt is a data mesh for connecting people with actionable data
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 37 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on enhancing the data indexing pipeline within the Quilt project. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to S3 and Elastic calls in the indexer, improving error handling, and optimizing code. They addressed issues with null metadata, implemented more aggressive checks for data types, and fixed a bug in the S3 List Packages implementation. These changes collectively improved the reliability and efficiency of data processing.
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Mike Sindelar - Senior Production Planner at Tyson Foods