Mike Schinkel

5.0

(5 reviews)

US$15.00

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ABOUT ME

Automations / API Integrations Software Engineer

My current focus is in custom automations with API Integrations on platforms like Microsoft Power Automate and Logic Apps, Zapier, Workato, Make (Integromat), IFTT, Tray.ai, Go High Level, Superblocks, Microsoft, and other similar platforms.

I can help configuring workflows directly in these platforms but I excel at implementing Webhook integrations involving completely CUSTOM/BESPOKE functionality of arbitrary complexity hosted on Heroku, Digital Ocean, Vultr, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or other cloud platform with my preferred development language being Go (GoLang) with SQL database backends (Postgres, MySQL, Sqlite or MS SQL Server) and I have extensive skills and experience in Docker, Linux, VMware, Github Actions and other CI/CD platforms, and have built Kubernetes Controllers and Operators for clients.

I am also a participating volunteer contributing sevearl houurs of my time to the OpenAPI Initiative each week.

I am US-based and have 30+ years of business experience during which I have been a software developer, a programming trainer, a marketer and an entrepreneur whose startup was recognized by Inc Magazine as #123 on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing startups in the USA one year.

Let me help you make your Automations with API Integrations a success.

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)

Joined March 2014

EXPERTISE

5 years experience

While I have over 25+ years of development experience over 7 years as a professional programming trainer, I have now worked with Go for 5...

While I have over 25+ years of development experience over 7 years as a professional programming trainer, I have now worked with Go for 5+ years on a variety of projects, some targeting all of Mac, Linux and Windows. I am available to both mentor developers who are brand new to Go and want to get up to speed using it quickly — especially if coming from a PHP background — and also to do development of custom packages for teams using Go, especially if integrating with Docker, VMware, Tart VM, VirtualBox and/or using JSON.

macOS Windows Application Linux Docker JSON Microservices

Git

12 years experience

10 years ago I designed and implemented the Git for workflow for the team on my largest project. It is similar to GitFlow but specific to...

10 years ago I designed and implemented the Git for workflow for the team on my largest project. It is similar to GitFlow but specific to our use-case. Since then I have used Git daily in my professional capacity.

Workflow Branching Version control

Workflow Branching Version control Versioning

VMware

3 years experience

I started using VMware decades ago, but recently my involvement ramped up when I used both CentOS and Windows Server as test machines whi...

I started using VMware decades ago, but recently my involvement ramped up when I used both CentOS and Windows Server as test machines while working for a major computer hardware + services company, and because of that I decided to buy and build a VMware ESXi server for my homelab, and I administer and use it almost daily.

VMware ESXi Windows Server Ubuntu Server

VMware ESXi Windows Server Ubuntu Server CentOS DebianGovcPacker Linux BashVcenter

Packer

3 years experience

I have automated a Linux Server ISO build processes with Packer and bith Ubuntu and CentOS for a major computer hardware and services ven...

I have automated a Linux Server ISO build processes with Packer and bith Ubuntu and CentOS for a major computer hardware and services vendor and use Packer for my own use to create Debian VMs for running Kubernetes with Tilt VM on Apple Silicon.

JSON HCL Bash

JSON HCL Bash Windows Server Linux Debian CentOS Ubuntu Server

Kubernetes

3 years experience

I maintained a database-server related Kubernetes Operator for one client, and developed an Kubernetes External DNS Provider for another ...

I maintained a database-server related Kubernetes Operator for one client, and developed an Kubernetes External DNS Provider for another client. I run Kubernetes at home on both my Mac using Tilt VMs as well as in a Debian VM running on my VMware homelab server.

Helm Containers Docker Compose

Helm Containers Docker Compose Linux Containers Linux System Administration Docker Linux Go Bash

SQL

13 years experience

In recent years I have used Sqlite extensively, preparing a database for use by contestants in a Data Science contest to help a non-profi...

In recent years I have used Sqlite extensively, preparing a database for use by contestants in a Data Science contest to help a non-profit, and developed several open-source apps that use Sqlite with GoLang. Prior to that I worked as a PHP developer targeting MySQL from 2007 through 2019. Even earlier I worked with other databases for over 20 years, included 12 with Microsoft SQL Server while my earliest databases were dBase II, dBase III and then Clipper which I wrote a book about.

PHP Go Database Management System Concepts

PHP Go Database Management System Concepts Database Normalization Database Development SQLite MySQL Database Database Schema Data structure

RESTful API

19 years experience

I have been studying and/or developing RESTful APIs since 2006 wheren I coined the term RESTafarian. I have developed numerous REST-ish A...

I have been studying and/or developing RESTful APIs since 2006 wheren I coined the term RESTafarian. I have developed numerous REST-ish APIs over the years, mostly without HATEOAS. In recent years I have fallen in love with Go and its almost perfect fit for developing HTTP-based APIs. I have both designed and developed as well as used many APIs over the years, the most recent of which was when creating both a API client for a bespoke DNS API backed by InfoBlox and relatedly a Kubernetes External DNS Webhook Provider for using said API client.

JSON API API Automation API Integration

JSON API API Automation API Integration Api testing API Rest api design Web Service HTTP Go

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(5 reviews)

Martie McLean

March 2025

Mike does a great job teaching the material. I have such a better understanding after his sessions!

Martie McLean

March 2025

Very patient and has a thorough understanding of the content

JeremyJalpha

March 2025

Mike is very enthusiastic about Go :).

JeremyJalpha

March 2025

Mike clearly has the kind of experience with Go that I'm looking for, Mike's methodical and logical approach made working with him a breeze. I am looking forward to working further with Mike :)

Travis Campbell

December 2017

Excellent work!

Gian

December 2017

Mike is a IT/PHP/Wordpress professional and I will definitely reach out again when I need assistance.

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

go-debuggable-k3d-pod

Proof-of-concept for a GoLand+Delve-debuggable GoLang app running Kubernetes (K8s) using K3s within K3d

Shell

.dotfiles

Scripting what I need installed on my Mac for my use-cases.

HTML

Stack Overflow

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