Michael Black
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarMichael Black is a backend engineer with nine years of experience building scalable APIs and data-driven systems for consumer-facing products, currently focused on backend engineering at Bluesky Social. He has led teams and shipped core backend services for dating and social apps at ARCHER and OkCupid, and architected high-throughput, resilient platforms at Target using Go, Kotlin, Kafka, PostgreSQL and related tooling. Michael blends hands-on implementation with mentorship—helping onboard and upskill engineers while designing patterns and libraries that accelerate delivery across teams. His work repeatedly emphasizes reliability and performance, from 6x throughput improvements in data aggregators to proxying patterns enabling near-real-time consistency checks. He pairs strong backend expertise with a history of small full-stack projects (internal tools and UIs) and a habit of building pragmatic utilities that other teams adopt. Based in Chicago, he’s motivated by solving challenging technical problems and delivering software that meaningfully impacts users.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (67)
cms10
hugo10
content-management-system10
static-site-generator10
blog-engine10
go10
fastest10
in-progress9
kotlin-multiplatform9
social-media9
testing9
kotlin-js9
scoring9
networking9
kotlin9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
blackmichael/f1-pickem
Mar 2021 - Mar 2024
A website for making Formula 1 picks with your friends. Free to sign up, available to everyone.
Contributions:2 reviews, 111 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pick-emscoringformula-1javascriptin-progress
blackmichael/discord-bot
May 2020 - Mar 2022
A simple Discord bot, just for fun on a private server, written in Kotlin.
Contributions:17 PRs, 40 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 10 months
discordbotprivate-serverdiscord-botfor-fun
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