Mitchel Vostrez
Senior Software Engineer (AI) at Clerk.com
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchel Vostrez is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years building cloud-native infrastructure, security, and performance tooling for companies like Cloudflare, Vercel, and Clerk, now focused on AI enablement. A Golang enthusiast with a BS in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, he’s shipped deployment and CI/CD improvements in high-profile open-source projects such as Vercel and Turborepo. Mitchel blends back-end engineering and DevOps expertise to optimize observability and deployment workflows at scale, and has deep experience hardening cloud platforms for enterprise needs. He often tackles the intersection of infrastructure and developer experience—improving CLI tooling, auth/token flows, and build pipelines—so systems are both fast and usable by other engineers. Based in Austin, he prefers permanent roles and brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to AI-infused developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English
Github Skills (23)
github-ci10
javascript10
vercel10
typescript10
build-system10
web-deploy10
environment-variables10
cicd10
deployer10
web-deployment10
typescript-types10
rust10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
cli10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/turborepo
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
Build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:120 reviews, 80 PRs, 351 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mitchel contributed to the Turborepo project by implementing features related to CI/CD workflows within GitHub Actions, including task log prefixing. They also refactored the authentication and API client interactions, introducing a reusable login token mechanism. Furthermore, the user made several improvements to the build system's codebase, specifically around token handling, including changes to the auth.json file and the login configuration.
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vercel/vercel
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Develop. Preview. Ship.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 17 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mitchel primarily contributed to the `vercel/vercel` repository by modifying the command-line interface (CLI) code, specifically related to deployments and environment variable handling. Their work involved fixing documentation links, adding error messages for incorrect flag usage, and modifying project and environment configurations. The user's commits also touched upon core aspects of the Vercel deployment process, including handling custom environments and exposing deployment-related variables.
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