Michael Bachand
Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Bachand is an experienced iOS engineer and infrastructure builder with 13 years of software experience, currently shaping frameworks, tools, and an engineering mentorship program at Airbnb in San Francisco. He co-created Airbnb’s Design Language System and has a track record of shipping product and platform work from his CalPal exit to contributions at Microsoft and Adobe. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and strategic roles, he runs a small investment firm focused on mobile apps and infrastructure and mentors engineers on scalable iOS architecture. An active open-source contributor and QA-focused engineer, he’s contributed testing and SwiftUI introspection improvements to community tooling like ViewInspector, underscoring a pragmatic commitment to reliability.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine College PreparatoryB.S.E., Electrical Engineering, B.S.E., Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
guideline10
swift10
swiftui-app10
unit-test10
swiftui10
test-automation10
macos9
git6
objective-c6
xcode6
facebook-ios-sdk6
ios6
command-line6
autolayout6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nalexn/ViewInspector
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Runtime introspection and unit testing of SwiftUI views
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions center on testing and improving the `viewinspector` project, specifically focusing on SwiftUI view introspection and unit testing. They've addressed issues and removed outdated elements like `InspectableEntity`. The commits involve modifying existing test suites, modifying code, and adding new tests to validate environment object injection and custom view inspection. The user clearly focuses on ensuring the project's reliability and correctness.
swift5modularityruntime-typecheckingruntimetesting
bachand/digitize
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Handy tools for digitizing physical objects
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 months
pythonphysical-objectsphysicalhandy
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