Mike Whatcott
Software Developer at Smarty
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolMike Whatcott is a software developer with 14 years of experience, currently building location data intelligence at Smarty and specializing in Go backend systems. He has designed and maintained core APIs and client SDKs for address, ZIP, autocomplete, and extraction services, and is the author/maintainer of widely used Go testing tools such as GoConvey, gunit, and assertions. A former music educator who turned a passion for pattern and automation into software craftsmanship, Mike emphasizes disciplined, collaborative development and clean code—highlighted by his participation in the "GO: With Intensity" Clean Coders case study. He contributes actively on GitHub and enjoys prototyping personal projects by night, bringing both methodical rigor and a maker’s curiosity to production systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, K-12 Instramental Music Education, Bachelor of Music, K-12 Instramental Music Education at Brigham Young University
Portuguese
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Github Skills (200)
jquery-plugin10
programming-language10
aws-services10
hugo10
go-language10
testing10
interpreter10
goconvey10
python-client10
crf10
javascript10
sublime-text10
sdk-nodejs10
browser10
smartystreets10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
smarty-archives/listeners
Aug 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
mdw-tools/tcr
Oct 2019 - Oct 2024
My TCR (test && commit || revert) scripts.
Contributions:1 PR, 79 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 1 month
tcrcommitrevert
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