Michael Kane
Co-Founder at Dramanoes, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kane is a seasoned software founder and full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems, from serverless GraphQL back ends to performant front-end tooling. As Co-Founder of Dramanoes and former Lead Front End Engineer at Kindur and Senior Engineer at Bloomberg, he blends product-first thinking with disciplined engineering practices like TDD and CI/CD. He has hands-on experience with AWS serverless patterns, automated delivery, and architectures that favor measured, repeatable steps over crisis-driven sprints. Michael also contributed to a serverless GraphQL repo, adding schema introspection endpoints and auth flows—an example of his practical backend craftsmanship. Comfortable spanning strategy, code, and even creative product work (he built tooling to merge Airtable data with print-ready designs), he thrives partnering with smart, funny teams to ship reliable, testable products. His background in philosophy gives him a deliberate, questioning approach to deciding which next steps are actually necessary.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at University of Virginia
Github Skills (15)
graphql10
javascript10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
aws9
apidoc9
serverless9
api9
nodejs8
authorizations8
user-authentication8
authentication8
authorization8
dynamodb7
amazon-dynamodb7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless-graphql
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 12 days
Contributions summary:Michael focused on developing the back-end API for a GraphQL service. They refactored the schema handler by extracting the introspection query logic into a separate file. The user implemented the introspection query and created a new endpoint to expose the schema. Furthermore, the commits involved adding user authentication and authorization using GraphQL mutations.
apolloaws-appsyncgraphqlserverless
marclar/rpi
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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