About the speaker
Experience behind the talk
Michael Duren is a Site Reliability Engineer at Target, where he builds Go-based infrastructure tooling for CI/CD pipelines and CDN systems on Kubernetes. Previously at Maximus, he built observability infrastructure from the ground up and engineered Go CLI tools that streamlined deployments across healthcare systems. Michael is a regular presenter at the Go MN meetup, where he's spoken on TinyGo and Go for developer tools. He's passionate about systems programming, lower-level networking, and understanding what's really happening beneath the abstractions we use every day.