About Me

Hi, I’m Mirah

Mirah halfway up a the Drachenwand klettersteig in Austria. She is wearing a helmet and sunglasses and has a backpack with hydration system slung over her shoulder.

I like hiking and climbing in the mountains

Mirah wearing protective equipment and a Vienna Roller Derby jersey blocking the opposing jammer with her hips. Mirah has a look of concentration on her face.

and I play roller derby , currently for Bear City Roller Derby .

Work

Currently, I work at VMware, where I’m the technical lead for the messaging and streaming program. We build RabbitMQ .

I’ve given a few talks on things like Concourse best practices and leading teams into maintenance mode.

I used to be a theoretical physicist, working on String Theory and Quantum Gravity (Publications ).