Michael Brown
CTO at Refactor Software, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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SeniorMichael Brown is a seasoned engineering executive and founder with 11+ years of hands-on experience building startups, web architectures, and media-focused broadcast systems from Vancouver, BC. As CTO of Refactor Software and former senior architect at ITN Networks, he blends pragmatic full‑stack engineering (C#/React/Postgres, AWS) with security, compliance and big‑data design, and has led SOC2 processes and hiring for scale. He invented and commercialized a patented 360° interactive video system used in live sports and Olympic events, demonstrating a rare mix of firmware, C++/C# engineering and live-broadcast operational expertise. Michael’s career spans founding ISPs and entertainment companies, upgrading legacy stacks and designing tenanted, encrypted systems for large media clients, reflecting deep domain knowledge in interactive television and ad tech. He’s equally at home sketching 3D animations or low-level firmware, which keeps his product thinking grounded in both user experience and hardware realities.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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semantic-ui-react10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
replaysMike/TypeSupport
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
A CSharp library that makes it easier to work with Types dynamically.
Contributions:80 commits, 25 PRs, 95 pushes in 2 years 10 months
csharp-codedotnetcsharp-libraryc-sharpcsharp
replaysMike/AnySerializer
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
A CSharp library that can binary serialize any object quickly and easily
Contributions:78 commits, 20 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 year 8 months
csharp-codedotnetanyserializercsharp-librarydeserialization
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