abitofhelp

Hi, I’m Mike 👋

Connect

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

Core Skills

• 🤖 AI integration: LLMs
• 🤖 AI Accelerated Development: ChatGPT, Claude Code
• 💻 Languages & Systems: Ada 2022, C/C++, C#, Go, Python, Rust
• ☁️ Cloud, Orchestration & Containers: AWS/GCP (familiar), Azure, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform
• 🏗️ Architecture: Distributed systems, Enterprise Architecture, Microservices, Embedded, Domain Driven Design, Clean/Hexagonal, IoT
• ⚙️ Build & DevOp: Alire, Bazel, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GPRbuild
• 🌐 Networking: Ambassador/Emissary, GraphQL, gRPC, Linkerd2, NGINX, REST
• ⚡ Serverless & Eventing: AWS Lambda (familiar), Azure Functions
• 🔒 Security: Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, HIPAA, OAuth2, OIDC, Okta, TLS, X.509
• 🗄️ Data: Azure Data Services, SQL Server, MongoDB Atlas, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite
• 📈 Observability & Messaging: Azure Queues, Grafana, Prometheus, SendGrid

Professional Summary

• 🤖 Actively using Agentic workflows using ChatGPT and Claude Code to boost productivity, improve quality, and accelerate learning.
• 🧑‍💻 Hands-on engineer who architects, builds, deploys, and monitors production SaaS systems using Cloud platforms, resources, and services.
• 🔧 Skilled engineer comfortable with low-level development, electronics, and embedded programming on STM32 boards.
• 🌐 Actively pursuing experience with device-to-cloud (IoT / Industrial IoT) and applied AI (automation workflows, integrating LLMs, etc.).
• 🏭 Allen-Bradley (Rockwell Automation): Global Senior Application Engineer, 10-year tenure; critical global field support; customer training; created PLC Ethernet, ERP, and VME C API libraries; published APIs in product manuals; APIs adopted by customers across manufacturing and mission-critical deployments by the French Navy (VME PLC battleship control).
• 🎓 University of Alaska: Software Engineering Manager for three teams (~20 engineers); personnel development, project management, budgeting, and mentoring on modern practices and advanced architectures.

Recent Open Source

Ada Alire Crates/GitHub:

• Dev_Container_Ada (author/maintainer) — A professional GNAT Ada development container for desktop and embedded (ARM Cortex-M) platforms. • https://github.com/abitofhelp/dev_container_ada
• 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

C++/GitHub:

• Dev_Container_Cpp (author/maintainer) — A professional C++ development container for desktop and embedded (ARM Cortex-A/M) platforms. • https://github.com/abitofhelp/dev_container_cpp

Go Packages/GitHub:

• 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

Rust Crates/GitHub:

• Adaptive-Pipeline (author/maintainer) — Crate for a high-performance adaptive file processing pipeline • https://crates.io/crates/adaptive-pipeline
• Dev_Container_Rust (author/maintainer) — A professional Rust development container for desktop and embedded (ARM Cortex-A/M) platforms. • https://github.com/abitofhelp/dev_container_rust

Interests

IoT / IIoT (device-to-cloud), defense/space, scientific/medical data, distributed systems, embedded, electronics, aviation

Selected Tech

Go (Golang) • C • 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