Michael Klein
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Klein is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience modernizing front-end systems and delivering payment and UI solutions at scale. He has led cross-functional teams at U.S. Bank to integrate real-time payments and raise customer satisfaction by over 60%, and now applies that product-focused engineering at PayPal. Comfortable across the stack—React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js and Java—he combines hands-on implementation with engineering leadership, code review discipline, and accessibility and security stewardship. His background in game art and AAA-quality tooling at Apple and Legend 3D informs a strong attention to UX detail and tooling automation that once sped QA delivery by 466%. Michael is a dependable, organized problem-solver who mentors engineers and has a track record of shrinking test cycles and defect counts through process and tooling improvements. Outside work he paints figurines and hikes Berkeley hills with his dog, a creative habit that fuels his practical, user-focused engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Game Art, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Game Art at Full Sail UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
codeship4
printf4
java2
react2
ruby2
typos2
typescript2
python2
formatting1
data-structures1
reflections1
bash1
shell1
zsh1
analyzer1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mKleinCreative/holbertonschool-low_level_programming
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:314 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 7 months
mKleinCreative/holberton-system_engineering-devops
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:145 commits, 130 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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