Michael Haan
Chief Squirrel at Top Secret Squirrel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Haan is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building scalable, message-driven and cloud-native platforms from startups to enterprise teams across the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently Chief Squirrel at Top Secret Squirrel, he specializes in observing, analyzing and improving complex systems—turning business challenges into durable technical assets. His background includes senior and staff engineering roles at Rivian, Autodesk, Medium and OpenTable, where he led Kafka-based messaging architectures and platform initiatives that emphasized reliability and observability. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping hands-on solutions, he blends deep systems thinking with pragmatic delivery. A longtime problem solver with a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science, he often plays the quiet strategist role that surfaces opportunities others miss.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Computer Science at California State University-Stanislaus
Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (90)
nuget10
state-machine10
easynetq10
editor10
nodejs-client10
electron10
typescript10
fsm10
visual-studio-code10
confluent10
microsoft10
librdkafka10
javascript9
dotnet9
typescript-compiler-api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sfrooster/DefinitelyTyped
Apr 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
type-definitionshigh-qualitydefinitionstypescriptquality
sfrooster/EasyNodeQ
Jul 2014 - Mar 2019
NodeJS implementation of EasyNetQ (also interoperable with)
Contributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 7 months
easynetqnodejs
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