Michael Guild
Lead Senior Front End AI Engineer at Guild Mortgage
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Guild is a Lead Senior Front End AI Engineer with over 20 years in product building, design, and mentorship, currently focused on client-side architecture for generative AI products in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He blends hands-on React and Next.js expertise with a history of creating internal design systems that speed delivery and enforce consistent UX patterns across large organizations. Michael is a servant leader who champions empathy-driven value, transparent communication, and developer enablement—regularly pairing technical standards with clear documentation to scale teams. His background spans founding startups and consultancies to leading engineering teams at enterprises like Koch Industries and The Washington Post, giving him a rare mix of startup agility and enterprise discipline. Notably, he has repeatedly translated design systems into production-grade component libraries and helped launch a document-intelligence SaaS platform, demonstrating both product vision and execution. He brings a pragmatic focus on efficiency from idea to production while mentoring engineers to adopt better tooling and process.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
836reputation
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22answers
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Github Skills (121)
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vector10
editing10
leaflet10
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css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michaelguild13/Selenium-WebdriverIO-Mocha-Chai-Boilerplate
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 5 months
test-automationmocha-chaitestingwebdriveriosinon
michaelguild13/todo-list-test
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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