Michael Lefkowitz
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Indeed
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Lefkowitz is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in Austin with a decade of hands-on full‑stack experience and an MBA focused on digital innovation. He builds products end-to-end and scales teams, hiring, mentoring, and designing career ladders that reduce attrition while driving technical delivery across web, mobile, and API ecosystems. Michael has led major rewrites (AngularJS→Vue, Ionic→React Native) and maintained open-source React Native libraries, contributing UI enhancements and accessibility features to widely used projects like react-native-calendars and react-native-picker-select. Comfortable at the intersection of product and engineering, he combines strategic experience with Fortune 500 digital disruption work and a practical knack for turning sketches into production systems. Outside work he’s a heavy‑weight lifter, nonfiction reader, and owner of big mutts who prefers remote campsites and hoppy beer—details that speak to his focus, curiosity, and appetite for bold trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Interpersonal and Organizational Communications, Bachelor’s Degree Interpersonal and Organizational Communications at California State University, Long BeachMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Digital Innovation and Information Systems, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Digital Innovation and Information Systems at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Hebrew, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
color-picker10
image-picker10
javascript10
react-native10
number-picker10
ui-components10
calendars10
people-picker10
photopicker10
frontend10
list-picker10
react10
range-picker10
standard-library9
ui-design9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
lawnstarter/react-native-picker-select
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
🔽 A Picker component for React Native which emulates the native <select> interfaces for iOS and Android
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:50 releases, 16 reviews, 189 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of a React Native picker component. Their work included modifying the core component logic, updating the README and examples, and adding unit tests. Further contributions involved enabling the placeholder object functionality, which provided flexibility for the picker component's user interface. Moreover, they enhanced the component to incorporate features like input accessory views and the ability to tab between inputs.
reactreact-nativeemulatesandroidfrontend
wix/react-native-calendars
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
React Native Calendar Components 🗓️ 📆
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the UI components of the React Native calendar library. Their work included adding and modifying props, such as disabling arrow navigation. They also implemented features like disabling the left and right arrows in the header, and made changes related to the header style and overall calendar structure. This suggests a focus on enhancing the user interface and navigation features within the calendar components.
reactcalendarreact-nativeandroidreact-native-calendar
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