Michael Borglin
Co-Founder & CEO at Borglin Family Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Borglin is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years building and scaling fintech, renewable energy, and crypto products from startups to major platforms. Currently co-founder and CEO of Surge.Credit, he’s focused on bringing Bitcoin, DeFi, and stablecoins into programmable credit markets while drawing on hands-on experience leading payments, ledgering, and risk teams at Check and institutional engineering at Coinbase. He has a proven track record of delivering reliable, high-volume payments (60k+ weekly) and driving operational improvements like a $13M infrastructure cost reduction and a 70% drop in deployment incidents. Michael combines product, platform, and growth instincts—having led hardware-software launches at Casa and negotiated a merger from his prior Lightning Ramp venture—while maintaining strong hiring and retention outcomes. Based in San Francisco, he also runs a family foundation supporting STEM education in Wisconsin, reflecting a commitment to community impact beyond product. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic, data-driven leader who thrives at the intersection of regulatory complexity and cutting-edge crypto infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Comprehensive, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Comprehensive at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
American Sign Language
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
lightning10
wallet10
lightning-network10
peer-to-peer10
bitcoin10
cryptocurrency10
cryptography10
blockchain10
daemon10
web-application9
casa9
coinbase-api9
nodejs9
nodes9
gdax-api8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Casa/Casa-Node-Manager
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Configures and launches docker instances to run the various services on the device
Contributions:23 commits, 26 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 months
instancesdockerlaunches
Casa/Casa-Node-Dashboard
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Web application for interacting with your Casa Node
Contributions:63 commits, 43 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 months
nodejsweb-applicationcasa
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