Michael Blain
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Blain is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently based in the Los Angeles area and contributing to Google since 2014 after a decade of engineering at Bloomberg. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and brings deep full-stack experience building reliable, production-grade systems at scale. An active open-source contributor, Michael helped advance the widely used w3c/IntersectionObserver spec—adding features like unobserve, refinements to the processing model, and enhanced documentation and examples. Known for bridging specification work with practical implementation, he combines standards-level thinking with hands-on coding and thoughtful API design. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical reviews and pragmatic improvements that make developer-facing features easier to adopt.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
web-development10
documentation10
api-design9
html9
css8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/IntersectionObserver
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Intersection Observer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 25 PRs, 47 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of the Intersection Observer specification, focusing on the implementation and refinement of the API. They added a Respec version of the specification, incorporated various styling updates, and implemented new features like the `unobserve` method. Further, the user updated the documentation, including the processing model and example code, and addressed code review comments to improve the specification.
observerjavascriptreactintersection-observer
googlearchive/frame-timing-polyfill
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:26 commits in 2 months
fpspolyfilljavascriptspecmeasuring
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