Michael Kitson
Engineering Manager at Mercury
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Kitson is an engineering manager and serial founder with 14 years building backend, mobile, and full-stack systems from San Francisco. He combines hands-on polyglot engineering with team-building experience, having led product-critical mobile apps at Sonder and core services at Expensify while scaling systems that process millions of transactions daily. As a founder he tackled high-throughput, data-intensive problems—shipping market-data APIs at Yuzu and an AI-powered travel planner at Trava—proving an ability to take ideas from prototype to production. He excels at performance-sensitive architectures, secure payments and data pipelines, and turning complex time-series datasets into usable APIs. Notably, he repeatedly operates as an early engineer/leader, hiring and shaping teams that ship product-grade consumer and developer-facing platforms. His blend of operational rigor and founder-level ownership makes him effective both as a manager and a hands-on technical contributor.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (69)
chat10
credit-card10
payment10
rails-app10
credit10
mount9
react-native9
android9
spina-cms8
graphiql8
react8
ios8
ruby7
postgresql-extension7
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
michaelkitson/Bletchley
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:46 commits in 10 months
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michaelkitson/derived_images
May 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 18 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 month
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