Michael Dvorkin
Señor Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Dvorkin is a seasoned software engineer and founder with over 25 years of hands-on experience bringing new technologies and products to market, currently serving as Señor Engineer at Apple in Cupertino. He has a strong track record of startup leadership and exits—co-founding multiple companies and building industry-first web-based contact center software that was acquired and rebranded—plus senior engineering and technical lead roles at Walmart eCommerce, LiveOps/Serenova, and Genesys. As the original developer of Fat Free CRM and author of the Donna chess engine and the widely used awesome_print Ruby gem (67M+ downloads as of 2019), he blends deep systems and full-stack expertise with prolific open-source impact. Known for designing scalable SaaS platforms and high‑traffic web applications, he pairs pragmatic architecture with hands-on coding and product instincts. Based on a foundation in Informatics from Vilniaus Universitetas, he brings entrepreneurial grit, long-term technical ownership, and an ability to translate complex requirements into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Vilniaus Universitetas
English, Russian, Lithuanian, Polish
Github Skills (19)
stock10
python10
trading10
pretty-print10
finance10
bitcoin10
cryptocurrency10
go10
golang10
ruby9
chess-engine9
macros7
esoteric-programming-language7
metaprogramming6
system-programming4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
michaeldv/donna
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
Experimental UCI chess engine implemented in Go, download binaries at http://donnachess.github.io
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 65 pushes in 3 years 11 months
chess-enginego
michaeldv/termbox-go
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 years 2 months
golangtermboxtermbox-gopure-go
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