Michael Abernethy
Staff Software Engineer - Frontend at Rubrik, Inc.
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Abernethy is a seasoned software leader and staff frontend engineer with 14+ years building high‑value, enterprise systems and a track record of driving both technical architecture and business growth. Currently leading an 8‑engineer React UI team at Rubrik, he re‑architected core form and wizard libraries to cut rendering times by ~93% and founded the company’s UI Architecture Board to standardize frontend direction. Previously as CTO of Optimal Auctions he led product and company operations for 14 years, architecting large-scale, low-latency auction systems that helped clients sell tens of billions in assets and disrupted historically entrenched markets like rough diamonds. He blends deep frontend performance expertise with full‑stack and cloud scalability experience, and brings rare domain fluency in designing auction economics into production software. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he pairs an MBA in Finance with a CS background from Duke to translate complex rules and regulations into reliable, revenue-generating systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Duke UniversityEmmaus High School
English
Github Skills (20)
javalin9
java9
servlet9
kotlin9
backbone9
rest-api9
jetty8
collections7
menu6
jquery-plugin6
plugin6
web-framework5
machine-learning5
jquery5
python5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bluedevil2k/backbone-live
Jun 2012 - May 2015
Backbone Live Models and Collections
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
pythonmachine-learningcollectionsbackbone
bluedevil2k/Jiffy
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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