Michael Abon
Staff Software Engineer at 1Password
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Abon is a Staff Software Engineer and strategic leader at 1Password with five years of experience translating complex security and developer challenges into scalable, user-focused products. He has led cross-functional teams building cryptographic protections against server tampering, an SSH agent with biometric unlock, and multi-language SDKs (Python, JavaScript, Go), and is currently driving the MSP initiative. Michael’s strength is turning deep technical problems—identity systems, CLI tooling that keeps secrets off disk—into elegant, production-ready solutions that developers actually adopt. His background includes engineering and management roles at Pivotal, Clio, and Zynga, giving him a strong mix of platform, product, and team-building experience. Based in Canada, he blends hands-on systems design with developer ecosystem thinking and is comfortable discussing distributed systems, API design, and engineering leadership.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Github Skills (29)
authentication10
1password10
hardware9
security9
sms9
auth8
python8
homebrew8
e-mail8
ruby8
helm7
k8s7
secret-management6
kubernetes-operator6
kubernetes6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
agilebits/imaging
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Simple Go image processing package
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
golangimagego-imageimage-processingresize-images
michaelAbon1p/postman-demo-app
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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