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Mike Hacker

Software Engineer
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Hi, name name is Mike Hacker. I am an indigenous software engineer, a Muscogee-Creek citizen, and DevX proponent.

First-Peoples & First-Nations Advocate

Recognizing:

  • The medicine wheel and native medicine in a modern world
  • The importance of the buffalo in our world
  • Leadership Development and my thoughts on Braiding Sweetgrass
  • Blood Quantum, Re-Birth, and the future of the Native Peoples
  • The intersection of Cultural Identity & Native Identity
  • Tribal Nation Maps
  • Land Exploitation & Corporate Responsibility
  • Recognizing contributions from the two-spirit concept in First Nations

Technology Background

I started working in technology professionally in the mid-nintes and worked full-time on the data-center side of IT academia, telco, and healthcare. In the early zeros, I started to become interested in the software side of things such as Ruby and Rails, and by the mid-zeros was building business applications and websites for myself and friends. By the mid-tens, I had completed my Bachelors in Buisiness Information Systems, joined General Assembly in Austin, TX, and attended the first cohort for the web development immersive. I was drawn to the GA program because of the focus on Ruby in the course work, and since GA, I have learned to appreciate JS as a "language". Since the mid-tens, I worked in various positions in fire & safety, academia, computer hardware manufacturing, marketing, e-commerce, online retail, government software, mortgage & finance, cyber-security, and web-hosting.

Amateur Radio Operator

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I am a amateur radio enthusiast, and I spend my free time as a hobby meteorologist.

JS/Ruby Enthusiast

Interested in OOP and JS/Ruby?

Check out 99 Bottles of JS/Ruby by Sandy Metz here.

Long-form Resume

  • SRE at heart, creating idempotent, idiomatic, and immutable processes to accelerate and secure the software supply-chain.
  • Utilized initiatives such as DevX, DevSecOps, and end-to-end ownership, to lower TCO, foster innovation, develop strategic metrics for bolstering engineering standards and unlock bottlenecks in the product supply chain.
  • Coordinated around product delivery milestones and funnel non-functional requirements into engineering planning cycles to coordinate, account, and align SecOps and IT Compliance with the supply-chain cadence.
  • Served engineering teams as an advocate; Lead with candid vulnerability, and approach product delivery as a software supply-chain within CICD tooling.
  • Sought to master methodologies such as SRE and Agile to meet the rapidly evolving needs of fast-moving software engineering and development teams.
  • Producing strategic data for developing SRE teams and initiatives through scientific-model driven methods, observability, meta-analysis, and fostering a well-balanced DevX and DEI model.
  • Seasoned triage support team member. Experience serving Operational Requests, production triage, obsessively leaning into Agile practices, leading with a spirit of support, advocating for end-to-end ownership, serving in complex decomposition environments, demonstrating OOP fundamentals, while also demonstrating rapid troubleshooting skills in both bare-metal and cloud native environments.

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