Principal/Senior Software Engineer. I build and operate production platforms: Go (Golang) on Azure/Kubernetes, secure gRPC service meshes (Linkerd2, mTLS, OIDC via Okta/AD), and SLO-driven observability (Prometheus/Grafana). I also write performance-critical components in C, C#, Rust, and Ada 2022 with clean FFI seams.

• 🚀 Shipped: multi-tenant geoinformatics SaaS on Azure/K8s; 77% CI speedup with Bazel + GitHub Actions
• 🛰️ Data/imagery: delivered concurrent geospatial/photogrammetry processing, optimizing throughput vs. storage for mobile clients
• 🔐 Reliability/Security: end-to-end mTLS, OIDC (Okta/AD); SLI/SLOs with actionable alerting and runbooks
• 🧭 Leadership: Software Engineering Manager for three teams (~20 engineers); mentorship on modern practices and distributed architectures
• 🧪 Regulated envs: HIPAA (contracting, pre-SaaS), SOC 2 (university)
• 🧰 Platform: Terraform, Helm, Redis (caching), Azure Queues (eventing), API gateways (Ambassador/Emissary, NGINX), light Azure Functions; familiar with AWS/GCP equivalents
• 🧩 Systems: C / C# / Rust / Ada 2022; FFI boundaries; predictable latency work
• 🤖 AI-assisted engineering: ChatGPT & Claude Code for scaffolding, refactors, tests, PRs, and runbooks (with safe-use practices)

Alire (Ada 2022)

• Functional (author/maintainer) — Crate for functional programming with SPARK safety • https://alire.ada.dev/crates/functional.html
• Hybrid_App_Ada (author/maintainer) — Enterprise starter application with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture • https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_app_ada
• Hybrid_Lib_Ada (author/maintainer) — Starter library with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture • https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_lib_ada
• TZif (author/maintainer) — Crate for parsing and querying IANA time zone information from TZif binary files (RFC 9636) • https://alire.ada.dev/crates/tzif.html
• ZoneInfo (author/maintainer) — Crate for time zone transformations and calculations using the IANA Time Zone Database • https://alire.ada.dev/crates/zoneinfo.html

Go (Go 1.25.3)

• Hybrid_App_Go (author/maintainer) — Enterprise starter application with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture • https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_app_go
• Hybrid_Lib_Go (author/maintainer) — Enterprise starter library with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture • https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_lib_go

Cargo (Rust 2021)

• Adaptive-Pipeline (author/maintainer) — Crate for a high-performance adaptive file processing pipeline • https://crates.io/crates/adaptive-pipeline

IoT / IIoT (device-to-cloud), geospatial/photogrammetry, defense/space, scientific/medical data, distributed systems, observability, and developer experience (Bazel).

Go (Golang) • C • C# • Rust • Ada 2022 • Kubernetes (K8s) • Azure • Linkerd2 • gRPC • GraphQL/REST • Terraform • Helm • Redis • Azure Queues • Bazel • GitHub Actions • Prometheus • Grafana • NGINX • Ambassador/Emissary

• 🌐 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljosephgardner
• 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/abitofhelp
• 📬 Email: mjgardner@abitofhelp.com