Michael Gilbertson
Senior Software Engineer at Grassroots Analytics
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gilbertson is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in front-end engineering, accessibility, and UX for customer-facing web applications. He’s led React-driven projects at scale—managing multiple apps concurrently and transitioning single-page apps to Next.js with SSR to improve SEO and performance. Notably, he built BigFuture’s Career Quiz, which has been taken over two million times with an 85% completion rate, and has deep practical expertise in accessible component libraries and remediation tooling. Michael pairs hands-on front-end craftsmanship (HTML/CSS/JS, TypeScript, styled-components) with backend familiarity (AWS Lambdas, Serverless) and formal Section 508 testing experience, making him a pragmatic bridge between design, product, and engineering. Based in McLean, VA, he combines a designer’s sensibility with engineering rigor to deliver usable, inclusive web experiences.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
ENGINEERING, ENGINEERING at Yorktown High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Virginia
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
libgit24
python4
serve3
nodejs2
webpack2
webpack-plugin2
javascript2
git2
recycle2
service-worker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mggwxyz/talking-clock
Mar 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches, 2 issues in 9 years 1 month
mggwxyz/pixelpad
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:126 commits, 128 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
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