CV

GitHub • michaelawhite.net • mikewhite314@gmail.com

Education

• Tufts University Sep 2008 - May 2012

  B.S. in Computer Science

• University of Tübingen Mar 2011 - July 2011

  Study abroad

• Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School May 2008

  • National Merit Finalist
  • National Finalist, Team America Rocketry Challenge, 2007-2008

Experience

• MyGEDCOMs 2018 - present

  Founder and CEO

  • Developer-owner of a GeneWeb-based GEDCOM upload genealogy hosting site with Bring Your Own Domain, unlimited generation maps on any report or chart, and automatic Dropbox upload of photos
  • Set product direction and conduct all product design, UI design and responsive CSS design
  • Developed the Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy) / PostgreSQL / ElasticSearch GeneWeb HTTP wrapper architecture and codebase

• Merck June 2015 - May 2016

  Software Engineer

  • Designed and implemented an interactive web application for browsing terabytes of drug-related data stitched together from multiple databases with intelligence dashboards and data export capabilities. Designed and implemented an enhanced nested query layer on top of an external flat HTTP query API.

• Dimagi, Inc Sept 2012 - July 2014

  Software Engineer

  • Full stack developer on CommCare HQ, a mobile data collection platform with case management and reporting. Contributed significant process changes, refactorings, and architectural suggestions.
  • Primary maintainer of a 10KLOC legacy JavaScript XForm designer, including major new features, bugfixes, performance improvements and significant bottom-line refactoring. Completely refactored a crufty codebase for modularity, readability and maintainability with net negative lines of code added over time.

• GetchaBooks, LLC 2010 - 2012

  Co-Founder

  • Co-founder of a streamlined course-based textbook price comparison site for 1200 colleges in the U.S. that scraped college bookstore sites on demand
  • Named one of Inc. Magazine’s Coolest College Startups of 2011
  • Wrote the PHP/MySQL backend
  • Contributed to product direction
  • Administered a Linux server

Research Experience

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology June 2010 - August 2010

  Student Research Assistant (remote)

  • Designed and implemented a semantic search extension for Semantic MediaWiki that interpreted free-form text-based queries as structured queries using existing semantic data. Added faceted browsing to the default semantic search results page.

Publications

• Michael A. White. A Self-Hosting Point-and-Click Editor for Any Functionally-Specified GUI-DB Application. April 2026. http://michaelawhite.net/files/whitepaper.pdf

Projects

• SQLAlchemy Graph-Based Access Control forthcoming

  • A seamless declarative graph-based access control extension for the SQLAlchemy Python object-relational mapper

• React JSON API

  • Declarative asynchronous data loading from JSON APIs into relational REST models for the React functional-reactive JavaScript UI library

• JSONAlchemy

  • Efficient flat views of multi-tenant or multi-user JSON form data stored in PostgreSQL in a JSON column, using partial indexes and JSON Schema

Technologies

Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript (Browser, Node.js), SQL, HTML, CSS. Moderate to high reading proficiency in C++, Java, Rust, and Go. Previous experience with C and C++.

Libraries: Flask, Django, React, Backbone, SQLAlchemy

Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), CouchDB, ElasticSearch

Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, Arch)

Version Control: Git

Editors: Vim