Michael Girouard is a seasoned systems engineer based in the New York City area with over 15 years of professional experience and a 25+ year background building infrastructure and APIs. Currently at Cloudflare, he brings deep expertise in scalable internet-facing systems, operational security, and developer-facing APIs. His career blends hands-on roles from founding tiny studios and a vintage eyewear brand to leading development teams and securing multi-million dollar web properties under tight timelines. Michael is a pragmatic engineer who values standards, version control, and maintainable JavaScript frameworks—skills he taught as a course director and applied across both startups and enterprise clients. A true "fan of the internet," he combines entrepreneurial instincts with a long history of solving real-world infrastructure and front-end challenges.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Digital Media, AS, Digital Media at Full Sail University
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
golangapicloudflarego-librarycloudflare-api
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Michael Girouard - Systems Engineer at CloudFlare, Inc.