Mitch Main
Co Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lorica
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMitch Main is a data-focused technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO, with 14 years of experience designing and operating analytics and data infrastructure across startups and enterprise clients. He combines a mathematician’s attention to patterns with hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD to build secure, auditable systems that scale. Mitch has architected end-to-end pipelines using Airflow+Spark, dbt+Snowflake, and Glue+Lambda+Redshift, and led migrations and automated royalty-payment solutions for large media and streaming clients. He brings a product-minded approach to data problems—reducing churn, identifying hidden revenue, and turning analytics into operational decisions. An active contributor to performance-sensitive open-source projects, his work spans back-end development on notable repos such as Multiverse-Core and low-level debugging tooling in gimli-rs. Based in Washington, he’s particularly drawn to modernizing traditional industries where thoughtful architecture delivers outsized real-world impact.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bainbridge High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at George Fox University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
plugin-development10
javas10
rust10
bukkit10
dwarf10
api-design10
binary-search10
java10
error-handling9
cross-platform8
testing8
http6
intercom6
python6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Multiverse/Multiverse-Core
Oct 2011 - Aug 2012
The original Bukkit Multi-World Plugin!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:175 commits, 4 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mitch primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Bukkit multi-world plugin, focusing on the world management aspects. Their work involved implementing features to load worlds using commands and making necessary changes to core classes like `WorldManager.java` and `MultiverseCore.java`. These modifications extended the API and improved the plugin's interaction with server events while also addressing issues such as invalid or null world names.
bukkitmultiversebukkit-pluginjavaworld-manager
gimli-rs/gimli
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
A library for reading and writing the DWARF debugging format
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mitch primarily focused on implementing and refining the `.eh_frame_hdr` section within the `gimli-rs/gimli` repository, a library for debugging information. Their contributions involved parsing the header, handling different pointer encodings, and creating binary search tables for efficient frame unwinding. The user also added tests to ensure the correctness of their implementation. Additionally, they fixed errors and addressed edge cases related to the `.eh_frame_hdr` parsing logic.
debuggingdwarfrustcross-platform
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