Michael Cypher
Founding Engineer at Axle
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cypher is a Founding Engineer and seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building integration-heavy platforms and leading engineering teams across fintech and consumer tech. He joined high-growth startups at early stages—Plaid at Series B and Adaptive at Series A—and has repeatedly stepped into staff and engineering manager roles to scale product engineering and integrations. Currently building an AI-native platform to transform a large fintech sector, he blends applied AI product focus with deep systems and integrations expertise. Based in New York, he has hands-on experience shipping resilient infrastructure for institution migrations, traffic, and integrations at scale. Michael’s background includes advisory board work alongside founding-engineer responsibilities, signaling a mix of technical depth and strategic product judgment. He holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and is known for joining teams early to turn ambiguous problems into production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computing, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computing at Imperial College London
Spanish, English
Github Skills (70)
typescript10
tmux10
javascript9
api9
testing9
autocomplete9
chrome-extension9
chrome9
developer-tools8
firefox8
locker8
httpie8
highlighting8
syntax-highlighting8
jekyll-theme8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mikeecb/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
mikeecb/cypher-jekyll-theme
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 2 years
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