Michael Leibman
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Leibman is a Staff Software Engineer with 16+ years building scalable, high-performance web and database systems, currently focused on sandboxing and latency at Google Cloud and Databricks. He combines deep expertise in SQL Server and .NET backend engineering with front-end performance, having authored the widely used open-source SlickGrid JavaScript grid. At Google he led frontend performance and invented the Release Independence Framework (RIF), a patented sandboxing approach that enabled independent delivery and reliability for 150+ Cloud products. Michael is adept at instrumentation, runtime profiling, and preventing latency regressions across very large codebases, and he regularly mentors and evangelizes best practices to thousands of engineers. He also brings hands-on experience with globalized UI, TDD, CI/CD, and managing offshore teams, pairing rigorous requirement analysis with pragmatic, fault-tolerant architecture. Based in Seattle, he blends deep technical craftsmanship with a track record of solving real-world scalability and performance bottlenecks.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
ACMS / Discrete Structures and Algorithms, Math, Computer Science, ACMS / Discrete Structures and Algorithms, Math, Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (8)
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery9
ui-design9
interface-design9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mleibman/SlickGrid
Dec 2009 - Mar 2016
A lightning fast JavaScript grid/spreadsheet
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:401 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the front-end development of a JavaScript grid/spreadsheet application. Their work included setting the z-index of context menus, converting line endings, and improving UI elements. Additionally, they focused on refining user interface elements, by fixing text selection and making a number of UI styling improvements, and working on the row reordering functionalities.
javascript
mleibman/components
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Component infrastructure and Material Design components for Angular
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
angularmaterial-design
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