Michael Durfey
Staff Software Engineer (MTS 1) at PayPal
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Durfey is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused web applications at scale, currently leading architecture and delivery efforts at PayPal. He has driven measurable impact—designing a patented hybrid SSR/CSR platform, pioneering Module Federation-based microfrontends, and improving onboarding conversion by up to 40% while cutting load times and regressions across dozens of apps. Comfortable across the full stack, Michael pairs pragmatic frontend performance techniques (CDN strategies, code splitting, service workers) with CI/CD monitoring to sustain gains. His background includes hands-on migration of legacy stacks to modern React/Webpack ecosystems and rapid prototyping as an independent developer. He brings a product-minded approach with attention to accessibility and developer experience, and maintains a public portfolio at michaeldurfey.com. Based in San Jose, he blends technical leadership with practical implementation, often stepping into both design and execution roles on large, cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of California, Berkeley
English, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
javascript10
coffeescript10
nextjs10
webpack10
commonjs10
federation10
federated10
webpack-module-federation10
react-bootstrap9
bootstrap9
es6-modules9
amd9
paypal9
css9
bundler9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FoodiGo/title-map
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:28 PRs, 123 pushes, 22 branches in 3 months
MichaelDurfey/personal-website
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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