Michael Bleigh
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Castro Valley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Bleigh is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and group tech lead for Firebase at Google with 14 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and cloud products. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (notably on Firebase Hosting, CLI, Cloud Functions, and Firebase Extensions) with leadership across product and engineering teams. A longtime open-source contributor, Michael has improved core Ruby API tooling (Grape/Grape::Entity) and several prominent Firebase projects including firebase-tools and superstatic. He brings an entrepreneurial background as a Divshot cofounder and a pragmatic focus on developer happiness—aptly summarized in his GitHub bio, "Makin' devs happy @firebase."
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at MITBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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google-cloud-messaging
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firebase-realtime-database
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firebase-authentication
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google-cloud-firestore
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Github Skills (54)
google-cloud-firestore10
firebase-authentication10
google-cloud-platform10
javascript10
middleware10
twitter-bootstrap10
grapesjs10
apidoc10
testing10
css10
rspec10
polymer10
configuration-management10
typescript10
google-cloud-functions10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/superstatic
Oct 2013 - Aug 2018
Superstatic: a static file server for fancy apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 13 reviews, 91 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `superstatic` project, a static file server. They implemented changes related to configuration file handling, enhancing the server's flexibility. Additionally, the user modified the cache control middleware and optimized aspects of the redirect and rewrite rules. These contributions improved the server's usability and performance.
file-serverstatic-file-serverfancyserver
FirebaseExtended/polymerfire
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Polymer Web Components for Firebase
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 48 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Firebase integration components within the PolymerFire project. Key contributions include renaming components to align with project standards, improving the authentication flow, and adding features such as Firebase Cloud Messaging support. They also addressed several bugs and improved the testing infrastructure for the project.
firebasepolymerweb-components
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