Michael Abashian
Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Abashian is a manager of software engineering with 11 years of experience leading front-end and full-stack efforts at Red Hat, where he progressed from UI Engineer to Manager. He specializes in improving user experience and shipping reliable web interfaces, with notable open-source contributions to the widely used Ansible AWX project focused on UI polish and usability fixes. Based in Durham, NC, he blends hands-on development skills with team leadership, coaching engineers through product-focused delivery. His background includes senior roles in web and medical imaging software, and a Computer Science degree from UNC Chapel Hill, reflecting a steady trajectory from developer to engineering manager.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (14)
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javascript10
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ui-design10
react10
exp8
user-experience8
html7
css7
nodejs6
sailsjs6
jestjs6
jtest6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:91 reviews, 2445 commits, 425 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the AWX project with commits primarily focused on the front-end of the application, specifically related to the UI and user experience. Their work involved implementing and modifying UI elements, such as whitelisting elements for popovers, enhancing UI links to retain query parameters, adding a search bar to modal, and fixing a bug that was causing issues with the save changes modal and the use of the "Prompt on Launch" feature. They also made changes to code files in both client and legacy styles, specifically addressing the display and usability of interface features.
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ansible/angular-tz-extensions
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
AngularJS features for TimezoneJS-enhanced JavaScript Date objects.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
datepickercalendarmomentjsjavascripttimestamp
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