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
356kreached
22answers
2questions
Github Skills (68)
json-schema10
flexbox10
html10
leaflet10
css10
dependency-free9
selenium9
form-fields9
zurb-foundation9
react-components8
material-ui8
react8
webdriverio8
e2e-testing7
dropzone7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michaelguild13/Selenium-WebdriverIO-Mocha-Chai-Boilerplate
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
E2E Testing: Selenium + WebdriverIO + Mocha + Chai
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 5 months
e2e-testingseleniumwebdriverio
michaelguild13/todo-list-test
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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