Mitch Connors
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitch Connors is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with a deep track record (18 years stated, 8 years recent experience) building cloud-native infrastructure, APIs, and user-focused tooling across startups and large firms like Google and Microsoft. He excels at translating qualitative and quantitative user insights into pragmatic engineering decisions—whether implementing complex data structures like a Sparse Merkle Tree or driving simple but high-impact changes such as extending Istio support windows to cut operational toil by half. Mitch has led cross-functional initiatives from product strategy to open-source stewardship, helped donate Istio to the CNCF, and designed migration and automation tooling that de-risk upgrades for thousands of clusters. He blends hands-on systems design with advocacy for Day‑2 operations, contributing patches upstream to Kubernetes and enabling broader access to enterprise-grade networking via open-source projects. Outside work he’s a SCUBA diver, reader, and writer, bringing curiosity and a problem-solver’s mindset to technical and community challenges.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Centennial High School
Github Skills (17)
bearer-authentication7
mongoose6
mongodb4
restful3
rest3
aws3
rest-api3
authentication3
testing3
aws-s33
nodejs3
puma2
javascript2
asynchronous2
authorization2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SCUBAGUYPNW/images-and-memories
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Image and memory sharing app
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
sharing-appmacosmemorysharing
SCUBAGUYPNW/301-code-wars
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:28 PRs, 19 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
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