Michael Hayes
Software Engineer at Stellate
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Hayes is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and developer tooling, currently focused on TypeScript and GraphQL. He has driven Node infrastructure at Airbnb—authoring i18n, feature-flag, auth and logging libraries, a GraphQL service framework, and a TypeScript client compiler for 50+ services—while also contributing full‑stack features. Prior roles at The Trade Desk and New Relic deepened his expertise in performance-sensitive instrumentation and large Java services. An active open-source maintainer and contributor (notably to Pothos GraphQL and the widely-used Sentry and New Relic JavaScript projects), he brings a practical bias for reliability and test coverage. In his spare time he’s building a strongly-typed TypeScript schema builder for GraphQL, reflecting a long-running preference for type-safe developer ergonomics. Based in Portland, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on API and tooling craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Portland State UniversityPortland Waldorf High School
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Github Skills (24)
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raven10
back-end-development10
testing10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
sdk10
wordpress-graphql10
error-log10
typescript-types10
graphql10
nodejs10
typescripts10
architecture9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hayes/pothos
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Pothos GraphQL is library for creating GraphQL schemas in typescript using a strongly typed code first approach
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:296 releases, 250 reviews, 1123 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to fixing bugs within the Pothos GraphQL library, particularly in the plugin-relay package. Their work involved identifying and resolving errors related to off-by-one issues in the relay plugin and Simple-objects plugin types. They also addressed issues related to subscription helpers and lint errors within the codebase, demonstrating a focus on code quality and functionality improvements within the GraphQL framework.
code-firstgraphqlgraphql-schemastrongly-typedtypescript
newrelic/node-newrelic
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
New Relic Node.js agent code base. Developers are welcome to create pull requests here, please see our contributing guidelines. For New Relic technical support, please go to http://support.newrelic.com.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the reliability of the Node.js agent by addressing parsing issues in `package.json` files. They implemented a fix to address routing changes within the Hapi framework and added support for various database operations. The user also removed a path.join() from the include statement for the index.js, and test/instrumentation-mongodb.test.js files.
gonewrelicnodejs
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