Michael Genson
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Genson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with five years of hands-on experience building backend services and improving data quality for web applications. He progressed from customer-facing and process roles into engineering, now working at Capital One after prior software roles at EAB and Riverside Insights. His open-source contributions include back-end improvements to the popular Mealie recipe manager—strengthening ingredient parsing, error handling, API ordering, and cookbook management routes—showing attention to edge cases and test coverage. Comfortable in production environments, he brings a practical blend of troubleshooting, API design, and incremental delivery informed by his earlier operational and service experience. An unconventional background in music composition and film scoring adds creative problem-solving and discipline to his engineering approach.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Film Scoring, Certificate, Film Scoring at University of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Science - BS, Music Composition and Arts Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Music Composition and Arts Technology at Illinois State University
Github Skills (11)
management10
gatsbyjs10
manager10
manage10
recipe10
sqlalchemy10
backend10
python10
api-design10
database-design9
json9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mealie-recipes/mealie
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1250 reviews, 50 commits, 1280 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael made significant contributions to the back-end of the Mealie project, focusing on improving the ingredient parsing functionality. They addressed bugs related to fraction parsing and added improved error handling. They also implemented API parameters to order data, as well as adding test cases to cover new edge cases. Additionally, they implemented the backend routes for cookbook creation and management.
backenddatabasefrontendrest-apivue
michael-genson/Friend-Boat
Aug 2023 - Jun 2026
A simple music bot for Discord
Contributions:37 PRs, 67 pushes, 47 branches in 2 years 10 months
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