Michael Alpert-appell
Staff Software Engineer at NetDocuments
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Alpert-appell is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, currently driving core engineering at NetDocuments. He combines a Computational Physics background with self-taught Android and formal full-stack training from Flatiron School, allowing him to bridge backend systems, databases and responsive front-ends. Michael has held roles from CTO to individual contributor, shipping features in Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL and mobile OCR integrations, and he enjoys making “the code go boom” — a hint at a pragmatic, results-focused engineering style. Influenced by science and science fiction, he brings a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving and a knack for turning playful technical obsessions into practical products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Class of April 2016, Full Stack Web Development, Class of April 2016 at Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational Physics at University at Buffalo
English
Github Skills (106)
expert-system10
file-parser10
declarative10
javascript10
yaml10
pdf2json10
assembly10
user-interface10
expert10
docassemble10
frontend10
react10
markdown9
evolve9
python9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mikeappell/pokemon_evolve_query_react
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Simple React app to create evolve search queries in Pokemon Go
Contributions:87 commits, 6 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 4 months
golangreactreact-simple-appevolvesearch-queries
mikeappell/get-some-flatiron-0416
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:66 PRs, 51 pushes, 70 branches in 1 month
lunchsynchronizer
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