Michael Hertzberg
Staff Software Engineer at Phantom
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
👤
SeniorMichael Hertzberg is a Staff Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience architecting complex web applications, specializing in frontend architecture, design systems, and reusable component libraries. He consistently drives frontend modernization—migrating legacy stacks to TypeScript and React, introducing design systems, and building SDKs and embeddable widgets that broaden product integration. His recent work spans geospatial tooling, credit-building fintech platforms, and developer-focused tooling, reflecting strong full-stack chops with Node.js, Deno, and modern React ecosystems. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs pragmatic engineering with UX-focused decisions to reduce load times and improve maintainability, and he’s quietly passionate about emerging frameworks like Lit and Expo. Notably, he has a track record of converting one-off solutions into foundational platform pieces that scale across teams and clients.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
npm-package10
footnotes10
hyper10
big-o10
express-graphql10
isolation10
browser10
api10
html10
text-parsing10
static-site-generator10
full-stack10
svelte10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
moimikey/npm-boilerplate
Jan 2016 - Sep 2019
💀 My boilerplate portable npm packages
Contributions:242 PRs, 322 pushes, 519 branches in 3 years 9 months
boilerplatenodejsportablenpmtypescript
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.