Michael Lewkowitz
Co-Founder at Windfall Ecology Centre
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lewkowitz is a seasoned founder and general partner with 11+ years formally counted experience and a decades-long track record building ventures at the intersection of software, impact and clean energy. He co-founded and leads DeFi-native House, runs Possibilian as a capital-and-coordination vehicle, and has spun multiple mission-driven ventures from mental health tech to community power and clean-energy services. Technically hands-on, he has contributed back-end improvements to open-source dialogue engine Superscript, focusing on data handling, config and robustness. His work blends product, investing and systems thinking—turning prototypes and experiments into acquisitions, partnerships and enduring community programs. Based in Ontario, Canada, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic commitment to social and environmental outcomes, and is known for combining playful curiosity ("possibilian") with disciplined execution.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
HBA Business Economics Co-op, HBA Business Economics Co-op at Wilfrid Laurier University
Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
nodejs10
javascript10
chatterbot10
chatbot10
integrations9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
application-integration9
integrate9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
superscriptjs/superscript
Dec 2015 - Sep 2017
A dialogue engine for creating chat bots
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the chatbot dialogue engine. Their work involved modifying and expanding the codebase, particularly in the area of data handling, topic management, and integrating external modules. The user made improvements to the codebase to provide environmental variable configurations to MongoURI and enhance error handling within the reply processing and module loading. These changes helped to improve the system's overall robustness and maintainability, while also fixing bugs related to module imports.
botchatchat-botsconversationdialogue-systems
Igniter/igniter.github.io
Feb 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 issues in 8 years 2 months
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