Sam Mikes
Principal Software Developer at General Motors
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Mikes is a Principal Software Developer with 12+ years building privacy and security software for Apple and now driving platform work at General Motors from Edmonton. He combines deep systems and tooling experience—spanning test automation for the ECMAScript Test262 conformance suite, portability fixes in high-performance C++ projects like OpenMM, and core npm reliability improvements—with a strong background in industrial control and reverse-engineering dating back to the 2000s. A pragmatic engineering leader and former Software Development Manager, he moves fluidly between hands-on implementation, QA automation, and cross-team architecture. Sam’s work is notable for improving robustness and portability across diverse ecosystems, and he’s taken deliberate pauses (a recent sabbatical) to recharge while staying active in open-source maintenance.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Honors, Distinction, Chemistry, BSc, Honors, Distinction, Chemistry at Harvey Mudd CollegeSanta Monica High School
French
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Github Skills (35)
simulation10
tooling10
javascript10
c-language10
npm10
npm-cli10
molecular-simulation10
es6-promise10
testing10
plugin-development10
package-development10
simulations10
command-line-interface10
compatibility10
package-manager-tool10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tc39/test262
Jul 2014 - Jul 2016
Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:44 commits, 20 PRs, 111 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Sam contributed significantly to the test suite for the ECMAScript conformance tests. They implemented tests for Promise functionality, covering various scenarios like Promise.all, Promise.race, and Promise.resolve. The user also refactored existing tests, updated test harnesses, and addressed issues related to error handling and test sequencing, contributing to the robustness and reliability of the test suite.
ecmascripttc39jstestsjavascript
npm/npm
Nov 2014 - May 2015
This repository is moving to: https://github.com/npm/cli
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 25 PRs, 1228 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the npm package manager, focusing on improving error handling, and fixing bugs related to the command-line interface and core modules. They added features to the `spawn` utility, modified the `init` and `build` scripts to improve error reporting. The user also made changes in the `config` module, and added tests to verify their bug fixes. These changes reveal contributions to improve the robustness of the core npm package manager.
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