Mikey O'brien
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMikey O'brien is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems and cybersecurity products. He has deep hands-on experience across backend languages and full-stack tooling, having shipped detection and secure communication systems in ransomware protection products and scaled services at Vectra, AWS, and Amazon Business. Currently he builds GenAI developer tools at Amazon, authoring widely used Agent SOPs like code-assist and code-task-generator that are leveraged by thousands of builders. He blends practical security discipline with product-focused engineering, moving research prototypes into production-grade systems. A San Diego State CS graduate, Mikey is equally comfortable designing low-level C/C++ and Go services as he is crafting developer-facing AI tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at San Diego State University
English
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Github Skills (85)
ruby10
ai-agent10
ai10
development-tools10
homebrew9
truncation8
emacs8
emacs-lisp8
ai-workflows8
vim8
exporter8
malware7
linux7
cli7
elisp7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator
Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
An improved implementation of the Ralph Wiggum technique for autonomous AI agent orchestration
Contributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 64 PRs in 10 months
ai-agentaiai-agentsai-agents-frameworkai-developer-tools
mikeyobrien/nix-config
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 95 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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