Michael Glukhovsky
Product Manager at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Glukhovsky is a product manager with 15 years of engineering and founder experience, currently shaping developer products and Stripe's API platform from San Francisco. He brings rare founder-level perspective from co-founding RethinkDB and deep hands-on chops across the stack—particularly front-end tooling and admin consoles—having contributed UI fixes, D3 visualizations, and documentation improvements to the widely used RethinkDB project. At Stripe he blends product strategy with technical fluency to create developer experiences that bridge APIs, tooling, and documentation. His background in full-stack development and docs infrastructure gives him a practical edge in translating developer needs into polished, usable interfaces. Outside of work he’s a storyteller and vinyl enthusiast, an inclination that surfaces in his attention to craft and narrative-driven product design.
14 years of coding experience
Stony Brook University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
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coffeescript10
python10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
d3js10
documentation10
handlebars9
ui-design9
backbonejs9
api9
jekyll9
backbone9
bootstra8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rethinkdb/docs
Sep 2013 - Jun 2016
RethinkDB documentation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:154 commits, 10 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on the documentation for the RethinkDB project, with commits focused on updating and improving the documentation structure and content. They modified scripts related to data exploration and Python documentation generation. Furthermore, the user made changes to the website's layout and navigation, indicating involvement in both front-end and back-end aspects of the documentation site. These changes encompassed modifications to HTML files, as well as updates to include files and Jekyll configuration, signifying contributions across the stack.
rethinkdbdatabase
rethinkdb/rethinkdb
Jun 2011 - Jul 2017
The open-source database for the realtime web.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:232 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end of the RethinkDB admin console. Their work involved fixing visualization bugs, implementing features for data filtering, showing and hiding a message for no data, and redesigning the server view layout. They primarily worked with CoffeeScript (Coffee) in tandem with D3.js, Bootstrap, and Handlebars templating, indicating a focus on user interface enhancements and usability.
realtimenosql-databasebackend-as-a-servicereal-timeclient-library
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