Michael Buffington
Staff Engineer (E5) at MX.com
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Buffington is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping web products across startups and established companies, currently leading technical work at MX.com from Salt Lake City. He combines deep Ruby on Rails craftsmanship, product-minded engineering, and a history of founding and scaling teams—from Grockit and Price.com to leading Grasshopper Labs—to turn prototypes into commercially viable services. Michael thrives on work that improves people's lives, has a strong background in customer experience and test-driven development, and is known for staying curious and unflappable under pressure. Beyond engineering, he brings a creative perspective as an artist, community builder, husband and father, which informs his collaborative leadership and long-term focus on meaningful impact.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (136)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elbowdonkey/axonome
Jan 2009 - Apr 2011
Contributions:75 commits in 2 years 3 months
renderingjavascriptisometricwebgl
jwhitmire/llor-nu-legacy
Apr 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
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