Micah Maligie
Senior Engineering Team Lead at Rocket Money
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMicah Maligie is a Senior Engineering Team Lead in Portland with 13 years of hands-on software experience and over a decade of leadership shaping frontend-first engineering teams. He specializes in modernizing legacy systems into well-documented, TypeScript-based codebases and has led large rewrites and cross-platform initiatives spanning React, React Native, WebGL, and Node.js. Micah is skilled at mentoring engineers across career stages, building contract-driven workflows (OpenAPI) to enable parallel frontend/backend development, and fostering end-to-end ownership from design through production. His background includes shipping production mobile apps used by thousands, architecting custom 3D engines and tooling, and automating robust mobile CI/CD pipelines. Known for blending deep technical craft with people-first management, he also brings a game-dev and tooling mindset that surfaces in pragmatic developer toolchains and performant interactive experiences.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Applied Computer Graphics, Bachelor of Science Applied Computer Graphics at California State University, Chico
Japanese
Github Skills (85)
node-library9
animation9
social-networking9
animated9
gesture9
react-native9
facebook9
react9
android9
nodejs9
mongodb9
database8
javascript8
testing8
networking8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SpaceViewInc/three.js
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
webgljavascriptthreejs3d-libraryjavascript-3d-library
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