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Mike Bros
Senior Software · Backend · Platform Engineer
Building systems that have processed $155M+ in billing
Minneapolis | Remote
Go React PostgreSQL Docker
Building systems that have processed $155M+ in billing
Minneapolis | Remote
Go React PostgreSQL DockerI turn loosely scoped problems into robust, production-ready systems. My approach centers on test-driven development, maintainability, and clean API design. I bridge the gap between what the business needs and what the code actually does, with clarity and ownership at every step.
I’m drawn to the kind of work where the hard part isn’t the code itself but the contracts between systems: billing pipelines, third-party integrations, event-driven architecture, and distributed services. Transforming complex cross-functional challenges into scalable, well-tested solutions that teams can actually reason about is what keeps me engaged.
Fully remote. I value teams with a high engineering bar, where problems get refined down to their component parts and solutions are built brick by brick to stand the test of time. I’m a generalist who grows by taking interest in everything that crosses my path, and I thrive with people willing to step outside their silo for the better of the team.
Roof Maxx Technologies
Longest-tenured individual contributor on the engineering team
Stayed through rapid company growth and a full platform migration. Every year brought new systems to build and new things to learn.
LinkedIn recommendations from Roof Maxx teammates
From the moment I joined the team, it was clear that Bros had some of the deepest knowledge of our systems. His ability to retain that information and understand how the different moving parts fit together made him indispensable in discussions around complex design, large features, and overall architecture.
His commitment to seeing things through… he never shied away from hard problems and always followed up until things were fully resolved.
His ability to read, understand and work with complex legacy code was absolutely critical to the team and the company. Bros was always quick to jump in and help when there were critical and urgent issues.
No problem was too big. He always remained calm, cool and collected while delivering high quality solutions… excellent as both an individual contributor and as a collaborator.
Systems I've designed, built, and operate
Multi-host XCP-ng hypervisor cluster backed by a 40 TiB ZFS NAS on mirrored disk pairs for high fault tolerance and 74K IOPS over a dedicated 2×40 GbE storage fabric. 30+ containerized services run as version-controlled Docker Compose stacks behind Authentik SSO with automated differential backups and point-in-time restoration. Services deploy across VMs as workloads demand, on an architecture flexible enough to run Docker, Proxmox, or Kubernetes.
This isn’t just a lab, it’s my daily infrastructure to build projects on and learn datacenter concepts. Forgejo runs my Git hosting and CI pipelines, Nextcloud handles document storage and sharing, Vaultwarden manages credentials, Immich runs my photo library, and OpenProject tracks project work. Operating my own platform means managing upgrades, testing backup recovery, debugging failures, and planning capacity. It’s how I learn what breaks, what scales, and what I’d build differently.
Mortgage affordability calculator with real-time rate comparisons, DTI analysis, and location-specific cost breakdowns. Iterated through three stacks (Jupyter notebook, Laravel + Vue, and now Go + React) as a proving ground for learning new frameworks end-to-end.
Obsidian plugin that combines markdown files from a folder into a single document with a directory tree, file headers, and clean section dividers. Built for feeding documentation context into AI tools.
Fork of the official Mermaid live editor with added local history, shareable diagrams with compressed export strings, and a cleaner UI with split saved/timeline panels.
Digital score sheet replacement for tabletop games. Built as a hands-on learning project for Laravel + Vue. Currently supports 7 Wonders Duel with category-based scoring and custom SVG icons.
| Player A | Player B | |
|---|---|---|
| Military | 6 | 0 |
| Treasury | 3 | 6 |
| Wonders | 10 | 14 |
| Civilian | 13 | 9 |
| Science | 4 | 7 |
| Commerce | 7 | 3 |
| Guilds | 5 | 4 |
| Total | 48 | 43 |
Western Governors University
ML pipeline predicting BoardGameGeek ratings using scikit-learn. Compares Linear Regression vs Random Forest on Kaggle dataset, served via Streamlit with a Docker multi-stage build that trains models at image build time.
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