Mike Surowiec
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Surowiec is a seasoned software leader and founder with over a decade of experience building and scaling digital products, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Fieldworks AI while also a Senior Software Engineering Manager at GitHub. He combines hands-on full‑stack expertise in TypeScript, React/React Native and Node.js with product-minded leadership honed by running a boutique studio (Dev Shack) and shipping cross-platform apps like Mazey. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the docs.github.com experience—working on UI components, breadcrumbs, client-side routing, search, and backend health checks—demonstrating a focus on both UX and resilient infrastructure. With a BBA and a minor in computer science, Mike bridges business strategy and engineering execution, comfortable taking ideas from whiteboard to production and scaling teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
ui-d10
javascripts10
next-js10
ui-design10
react10
documentation9
frontend-development9
front-end-development9
documentations9
content-management-system8
css8
content-management8
middleware7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
github/docs
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
The open-source repo for docs.github.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 295 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the documentation website, focusing on improving the user experience and functionality of the GitHub documentation. They implemented changes to UI components using React, updated documentation rendering, fixed breadcrumb navigation, and improved search functionality. The user also made contributions to backend configurations, such as enabling client-side routing and adding health check endpoints.
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mikesurowiec/mikesurowiec
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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