Summary
Michael Davis is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Palo Alto with three decades of professional coding experience and a 12-year focus on modern full‑stack and frontend architecture. He excels at turning ambitious, research-driven ideas into pragmatic, high-performance products—from carrier-grade OSS and scientific ECAD tools to drag‑and‑drop AI IDEs and scalable ed‑tech platforms. Known for a relentless "get things done" ethic, he repeatedly champions simplicity, encapsulation, and developer-friendly tooling while rearchitecting large applications (MVC, PubSub transport, lazy-loading clusters) for testability and performance. He thrives in cross-disciplinary teams with scientists and academics, shipping innovative human interfaces and direct-manipulation graphics that make complex systems tractable. Outside engineering he co-runs an ultra high‑end audio business and has published an enormous catalog of gear photography, a hint at his obsessive attention to craft and sensory detail.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer