Michael Macpherson
Director Of Development at Spotlightly
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Macpherson is a Director of Development and full‑stack JavaScript leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling mobile and web products using React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL and modern backend services like Firebase and Supabase. He currently manages an elite engineering team at MindSea while also running his app studio, Spotlightly, combining hands‑on architecture work with people‑first leadership. Michael has a track record of shipping production mobile apps, leading GraphQL and CodePush architectures, and delivering end‑to‑end features from UX research to backend services. He prefers pragmatic, token‑aware engineering decisions (and notably dislikes WordPress/Drupal), and brings a blend of startup founder grit and agency/enterprise experience. Based in Old Toronto, he’s as comfortable mentoring new engineers as he is establishing scalable CI/CD and cloud workflows across AWS and GCP.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce with Honours Marketing/Small Business Entrepreneurship Double Major, Bachelor of Commerce with Honours Marketing/Small Business Entrepreneurship Double Major at University of ManitobaGraduate Certificate Web Development, Graduate Certificate Web Development at Humber CollegeBachelor of Arts(Incomplete) Digital Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts(Incomplete) Digital Media Studies at Vancouver Island UniversityBlockchain for Developers Ethereum, Blockchain for Developers Ethereum at Lighthouse Labs
English, French, javascript
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Github Skills (200)
realtime10
react-native-reanimated10
apollo-client10
javascript10
react-native-gesture-handler10
apollographql10
reactive-programming10
build-system10
rpc10
ui-framework10
nodejs10
mongodb10
caching10
npm10
plaid10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MindSea/mindsea-react-native-template
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Template for react native
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
react-nativereacttemplate
mikeislearning/Headless-Drupal-Template
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 month
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