Mike Crittenden
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Crittenden is a Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub with 17 years of experience, currently leading work on security product growth while blending people-first leadership with technical stewardship. He specializes in building healthy team culture, agile processes, and developer tooling at scale—previously running Frontend Platform at Wayfair that supported 1,000+ engineers and 100+ million pageviews per day. A hands-on engineer as well as a manager, he contributes to front-end and back-end open-source projects (including a Flowdock plugin for the quirky, well-known lolcommits git-based selfie tool and a custom keyboard-shortcuts extension). He blogs daily about team dynamics and process (critter.blog) and brings a background as a CIO and software architect, with a BS in Computer Science from Furman University.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
rest-api10
webextension10
javascript10
chrome-plugin10
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
browser-extension10
ruby10
html9
css9
git9
vue7
vue-jsx7
webcam4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
crittermike/shortkeys
Apr 2012 - Oct 2022
A browser extension for custom keyboard shortcuts
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 6 reviews, 322 commits in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the front-end development of the browser extension. Their commits focused on the implementation of new features and UI improvements, including the addition of new keyboard shortcut actions, and the development of an options page. The user also worked on the styling and layout of the options page using a CSS framework.
custom-keyboardfirefoxbrowserjavascriptwebextension
lolcommits/lolcommits
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
:camera: git-based selfies for software developers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on adding and refining a Flowdock plugin to the `lolcommits` project. Their contributions involved integrating with the Flowdock API, configuring the plugin, and handling image uploads. The user made several iterations, including fixing style issues, removing unnecessary code, and adding downcase to input strings. Their work centered on expanding the project's functionality through third-party service integration.
webcamcameraselfiesgit-addonsselfie
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