Mike McNeil
Chief Executive Officer at Fleet (fleetdm)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Mcneil is a seasoned open-source founder and software engineer in Austin with 14 years of experience, best known as the creator and BDFL of the Sails.js framework. He currently contributes to Fleet (and is listed as CEO on GitHub), focusing on front-end UX and documentation for an open-source IT/security platform, and has historically led development of PostgreSQL, MySQL and Mongo adapters for Sails—fixing schema and auto-increment edge cases and improving error messages. Mike also contributes technical writing to projects like caolan/async and the Sails docs, consistently prioritizing developer experience and clearer API behavior. That blend of low-level database/ORM expertise, product-focused UX work, and founder grit helped Sails scale to roughly 50M downloads/year and drives his practical, security-minded tooling for ops teams.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (42)
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node-js10
documentations10
postgresql10
website-development10
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back-end-development10
mysql10
async10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
balderdashy/sails-mongo
Jan 2013 - May 2020
MongoDB adapter for Sails.js / Waterline ORM.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 12 reviews, 204 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the `sails-mongo` project, a MongoDB adapter for Sails.js, by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the adapter's core functionality. Their work involved integrating changes from the `sails-disk` adapter, improving error messages, and addressing consistency violations in collection management. Furthermore, the user focused on updating the adapter to work with newer versions of dependencies, and also removed deprecated features and improving general compatibility.
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balderdashy/sails-docs
Oct 2012 - Nov 2020
**Latest docs now live in the Sails core repo!** The source markdown files for the official Sails.js documentation, which gets compiled, squeezed, and stretched into HTML when we deploy the Sails website.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 releases, 2310 commits, 97 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions primarily involve creating and updating documentation for the Sails.js framework. They added and modified content related to various aspects of Sails, including routes, logs, and associations, as well as information on community plugins and adapters. The commits focused on structuring and refining the documentation to provide better clarity and guidance for users of the framework.
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