Mike Virata-stone
Application Architect
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Virata-stone is an Application Architect with 16 years of experience designing and building full-stack systems using JRuby, Rails, React, and Java, currently based in San Jose. He excels at quickly mastering new languages and technologies, preferring agile, test-driven environments and practical, customer-focused products. At RealPage he blends backend architecture with hands-on development, and his open-source contributions to RubyGems/Bundler show deep experience in dependency management, platform-specific packaging, and robust testing. Earlier roles at Siemens and Cal Poly demonstrate a strong foundation in performance engineering, tooling, and cross-platform UI work. He brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that favors measurable improvements—like introducing better load testing—and a knack for turning legacy systems into maintainable, modern architectures.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
dependency-management10
package-manager-tool10
rspec10
package-manager10
bundler10
rubygems10
test-automation10
testing10
api-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rubygems/bundler
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Manage your Ruby application's gem dependencies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on improving the gem dependency management system. They implemented features related to fetching and setting gem sources, particularly concerning mirror configurations and the "X-Gemfile-Source" header. Furthermore, the user wrote tests to ensure that the header is set correctly under different source conditions, as well as added tests to address platform-related installation behavior. The contributions also include changes related to gemspec loading and platform restrictions.
dependenciesrubygemsbundlerrubydependency-manager
rubygems/rubygems
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the RubyGems project by modifying the Bundler component, focused on improving the fetching of gem specifications and handling of source mirrors. They refactored and added specs to ensure the correct behavior of header setting when fetching gems. Their work also involved platform-specific dependency management and improvements to the gem yanking process, impacting the overall packaging and distribution workflow of Ruby gems.
rubygemspackagingpackage-managerrubymruby
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