Brian Michalski
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Michalski is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 18 years of experience building reliable full-stack systems and leading privacy efforts at Google Maps Platform. He combines hands-on engineering—from jQuery-based front-end refactors and Ruby on Rails mapping work to backend reporting pipelines and BI integrations—with strategic ownership of privacy features like differential/noise approaches. At Google he led business-facing platform components and now leads privacy for Maps, marrying product-facing engineering with data-protection rigor. An active open-source contributor, his work includes enhancing Google Maps web components and modernizing the Concerto digital signage stack. He brings a pragmatic, results-oriented style rooted in strong academic training (RPI M.S./B.S.) and an early career track record of automating and scaling messy legacy systems.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer and Systems Engineering, B.S., Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stackoverflow
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92answers
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Github Skills (14)
html10
polymer10
javascript10
web-components10
front-end-development10
jquery10
google-maps-api10
google-maps9
css9
database-design7
google-bigquery6
google-places-api6
api6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
concerto/concerto
Feb 2010 - Nov 2021
Concerto Digital Signage System
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:850 commits, 13 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian focused on front-end development, primarily working with jQuery to implement new features and refactor existing functionality within the digital signage system. They replaced prototype-based JavaScript with jQuery, and also made configuration changes related to Javascript includes. They also made contributions to backend code, updating the content upload process, modifying the data type, and making adjustments to the form.
bulletin-boardconcertosignagedigital-signage
GoogleWebComponents/google-map
Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
Google Maps web components
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the Google Maps web components. Their contributions involved refactoring the existing code to move configuration settings to attributes, thereby increasing flexibility. They implemented features for displaying information windows using innerHTML from custom markers, and added the ability to disable map dragging and zooming for better user control. Further, the user refactored code to optimize and remove redundant code, demonstrating a strong focus on user experience.
google-mapsweb-componentsweb-maps
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