Michael Gradek
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.
14 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 (77)
windows10
javascript10
jss10
chromium10
linux10
js10
stylesheets10
brave10
macos10
nodejs10
brave-browser10
browser9
css9
multi-tier9
android9
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-qa-a
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
Busbud Quality Assurance Coding Challenge
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
quality-assurance
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