Mike Young
Software Engineer at Sonar
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Young is a software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native and web applications, currently at Sonar after a long tenure as a Staff Software Engineer at Tidelift. He brings deep backend expertise across Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, and Java, and has repeatedly owned platform-level tooling for CI/CD, containers, and AWS services. Mike has driven measurable improvements in observability and analytics—evidenced by contributions to the well-regarded libraries.io project where he implemented metrics gathering for commit, release, issue, and PR activity. His background includes architecting resilient internal developer platforms and migrating monoliths toward modular, testable systems at enterprise scale. Comfortable mentoring teams and leading refactors, he also blends front-end experience (Angular/Vue) and mobile work into pragmatic, product-focused engineering. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs pragmatic engineering discipline with a knack for turning operational pain points into automated, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (16)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
github-api10
dependency-analysis9
sidekiq9
apidoc9
api9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
open-source9
rspec8
activerecord8
searching7
package-manager-tool7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
librariesio/libraries.io
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
:books: The Open Source Discovery Service
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:155 reviews, 193 commits, 267 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Mike focused on enhancing the repository's functionality related to gathering statistics for GitHub repositories. They implemented code to collect various metrics around commit and release frequency, including issue and pull request data. The user worked on adding internal API keys and implemented enhancements to the workers managing maintenance stats. These changes show a focus on improving the project's ability to analyze and report on the health and activity of open-source projects.
discovery-servicediscoverydependenciessearchpackage-manager
librariesio/librariesio-url-parser
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
Parse the URL for various repositories tracked by libraries.io
Contributions:13 reviews, 26 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 5 months
repositoriesparsersuritldnodejs
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