Michael Blanchard
Senior Director Of Engineering at National Football League (NFL)
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
Summary
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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 (79)
slide10
react-native-web10
cross-platform10
trend10
android10
publisher10
slider-component10
ios10
google-publisher-tag10
react-native10
interaction10
postinstall10
react10
javascript9
appauth9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nfl/react-native-admob
May 2019 - Nov 2021
A react-native component for Google AdMob banners
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
reactadmobreact-nativereact-native-componentandroid
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
reactslidereact-nativeweb-nativejavascript
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