Michael Bachand
Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Bachand is an engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years building iOS frameworks and tooling at Airbnb, where he co-created the company’s Design Language System and leads infrastructure and mentorship programs. A former co-founder and CTO of CalPal (acquired by Airbnb), he blends startup grit with enterprise experience from Microsoft and Adobe and holds a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton. He contributes to open-source SwiftUI testing tooling—notably improving ViewInspector’s runtime introspection and test suites—bringing a strong emphasis on reliability and developer UX. Outside product engineering he runs Michael Bachand Investments, making strategic bets in mobile apps and infrastructure, and his early research work on a retarding potential analyzer hints at a long-standing interest in hardware-adjacent challenges.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine College PreparatoryB.S.E., Electrical Engineering, B.S.E., Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
swift10
guidelines10
swiftuiapp10
unit-test10
swiftui10
test-automation10
macos9
objective-c6
xcode6
git6
facebook-ios-sdk6
ios6
command-line6
autolayout6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nalexn/ViewInspector
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Runtime introspection and unit testing of SwiftUI views
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions center on testing and improving the `viewinspector` project, specifically focusing on SwiftUI view introspection and unit testing. They've addressed issues and removed outdated elements like `InspectableEntity`. The commits involve modifying existing test suites, modifying code, and adding new tests to validate environment object injection and custom view inspection. The user clearly focuses on ensuring the project's reliability and correctness.
swift5modularityruntime-typecheckingruntimetesting
bachand/digitize
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Handy tools for digitizing physical objects
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 months
pythonphysical-objectsphysicalhandy
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