Michael Bean @keybase.io/bean5

30-second elevator pitch: I am a software engineer by trade and linguist by training. My master's degree was computational. It employed NLP, recommendation, machine learning, and container technology (Docker). I worked for large corporations (Dell EMC) and small ones including start-ups of various sizes (1, 5, 30+ employees). I have built technology in various areas including agriculture (Fort Supply Technology, LLC.), data backup (Mozy, Dell EMC), and education (BYU's Continuing Education and Independent Study). Notable projects and experience range from preparing for datacenter crash and hacks, datacenter crashes (2+), building a custom code linter for my team which saved hours of work, standing up thousands of external VMs to simulate both actual user experience and to test an entire datacenter simultaneously. I have made reports and pages load 1000 times faster for end-customers by optimizing queries and code.

And I definitely know how to use git--I use git rebase regularly with ease. Somehow a lot of engineers miss the memo on the importance of knowing git/merkle trees through and through.

Longer-pitch (public links when available):

• software engineering
• contribute to open source
• conduct research
• solve problems
• publish
• gather helpful NLP tools
• do lots of smaller projects just for fun
• follow the crypto space (security and finances)
• analyze my work habits
• muse/blog