Michael Gradek
Co-Founder And CTO at Busbud
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gradek is a seasoned technology leader and Co-Founder/CTO with 14 years of experience designing internet-scale systems, server architectures, and web performance optimizations. Based in Montreal, he built Busbud into the world’s largest bookable bus supply across 85+ countries, blending hands-on engineering in Node.js, C++, .NET and JavaScript with product and operational leadership. His background at Microsoft/Bing includes work on personalization, real-time feedback loops, Windows-integrated search apps and high-scale client instrumentation, giving him deep expertise in both backend systems and client integrations. Known for translating between engineers and management and “inspiring calm in the face of fires,” he focuses on pragmatic reliability and measurable performance gains. An engineer-founder comfortable shipping production systems and courting investors and partners, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with technical depth rooted in McGill computer engineering.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Software and electrical engineering, Computer Engineering Software and electrical engineering at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (116)
windows10
javascript10
jsonpath10
jss10
chromium10
linux10
browser10
firefox10
js10
stylesheets10
brave10
rocket10
bus10
macos10
jq10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
busbud/coding-challenge-frontend-a
Jul 2013 - Nov 2018
Busbud coding challenge baseline
Contributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 5 months
typescript
busbud/coding-challenge-native-a
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
reactroute
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