Michael Hand
Backend Engineer at Aescape
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hand is a backend engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building content-focused systems and media workflows. He has led backend and platform efforts at Tonal and Fitbit and now works on backend systems at Aescape, specializing in REST APIs, microservices, and tooling that help content teams scale. His background uniquely blends video production and engineering — from Premiere/After Effects plugins and media ingest automation to Ruby/Go services and AWS-backed platforms. Michael is comfortable bridging product, content, and infra, turning creative requirements into reliable, automated pipelines. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions that reduce manual content work, he brings both hands-on engineering and a content creator’s sensibility to technical design.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Broadcasting and Electronic Communication Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Broadcasting and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (47)
vp910
pps10
adts10
aac10
h2649
mp39
controlling9
mp49
parsing9
mpeg-dash9
audio8
hevc8
fmp48
matroska8
tla7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tonalfitness/govaluate
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Arbitrary expression evaluation for golang
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 13 PRs in 3 years 11 months
golangtlaevaluationarbitrary
palmdalian/python_lumix_control
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
pythoncameracontrollingpanasonicpython-module
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