Michael Chang
Founding Software Engineer at Indigo
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Chang is a founding software engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building fault-tolerant, high-volume data systems and taking products from zero to one. He’s been the first engineer at multiple startups—most notably Ribbon—where he helped scale homebuying workflows and shipped resilient production services. With senior engineering roles at Twitter and early work at Google and Apple, he blends product-focused design with deep engineering rigor across full-stack and backend systems. Recently he’s steered engineering at climate-focused ventures, signaling a deliberate shift to apply his infrastructure and data-processing expertise to energy and sustainability problems. Known for learning fast and teaching teammates, he thrives on solving ambiguous problems and operationalizing systems that must run reliably at scale. Based in Oakland, he combines startup grit with enterprise experience to drive measurable impact on complex, high-throughput platforms.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, B.S, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese
Stackoverflow
23reputation
742reached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (26)
django8
window-manager8
space-partitioning8
monitor7
sentry7
macos7
xcode6
devops6
iphone6
python6
objective-c6
monitoring6
apm5
performance-monitoring4
crash-reports4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mcchang/dotfiles
Mar 2010 - Nov 2013
Contributions:56 commits in 3 years 7 months
mcchang/gatsby-starter-netlify-cms
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
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