Michael Calkins
Senior Front-End Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Calkins is a Senior Front-End Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native web UIs, currently shaping AWS Amplify Console from Seattle. He has a strong track record at Amazon leading front-end teams for robotics and mechatronics, where he defined UI standards, drove cross-organizational roadmaps, and enabled rapid deployment patterns using AWS CDK, CloudFront, and S3. Comfortable across legacy and modern stacks, he’s migrated and modernized apps from AngularJS and jQuery to React and TypeScript while establishing logging and deployment practices adopted by other teams. His work blends hands-on engineering with team leadership—leading away-team engagements that saved millions through reliability improvements and accessibility-focused user research for robotic interfaces. Michael’s background includes full-stack and e-commerce optimization early in his career, giving him a pragmatic perspective on performance and conversion alongside developer experience. He’s notable for translating complex robotics UI needs into repeatable frontend constructs that backend teams can replicate, accelerating product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Robotics Technology/Technician, High School Diploma Robotics Technology/Technician at Arts and Technology Highschool
Stackoverflow
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angularjs
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html
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varchar
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twitter-bootstrap
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php
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ajax
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Github Skills (155)
twitter-bootstrap10
onclick10
amazon-cognito10
windows10
visual-studio10
aws-s310
javascript10
editor10
amplify10
enums10
aws-apigateway10
dependency-free10
aws-amplify10
html10
cloud-services10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
iCodeForBananas/trixcamp
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 38 commits, 1 PR in 15 days
basecampwriting-appdistraction-freedistraction-free-writingtrix-editor
iCodeForBananas/arcade-polygons-plugin
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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