Michael Blanchard
Senior Director Of Engineering at National Football League (NFL)
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Blanchard is a Senior Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience building high-performance front-end and cross-platform video experiences for millions of users at the NFL. He progressed from front-end engineer to senior leadership while leading adoption of React Native and react-native-web, reintroducing end-to-end testing with Playwright, and architecting critical content and video authorization APIs. Michael combines hands-on engineering—shipping mobile and PWA products at scale—with platform strategy and team leadership across on-site staff and remote contractors. His background spans full-stack work, real-time WebRTC systems, and developer tooling, reflecting a knack for pragmatic architecture and automation. He also brings an analytical, process-improvement mindset from earlier roles in financial operations and a surprising chapter as a championship-winning professional American football player. Based in Manhattan Beach, he pairs technical depth with operational rigor to deliver reliable, fan-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AB cum laude Political Science Anthropology, AB cum laude Political Science Anthropology at Davidson CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at CodesmithMobile Development (iOS Swift), Mobile Development (iOS Swift) at General Assembly
Spanish
Github Skills (65)
javascript10
react-native-web10
javascript-tools10
patch10
trend10
android10
google-publisher-tag10
ios10
react-native10
postinstall10
react10
appauth9
react-native-bridge9
apple-tv9
react-dom9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
miblanchard/react-native-slider
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
A pure JavaScript <Slider> component for react-native and react-native-web
Contributions:41 reviews, 5 commits, 141 PRs in 26 days
javascriptreact-nativereact-native-web
midMEETdle/slick
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Slack for Music: provide real time event driven collaboration between users for synchronized music playback and DJ delegation
Contributions:63 commits, 31 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 months
event-drivenslack
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