Michael Mantel is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of formal experience and a long track record of evolving web platforms from MVP to scale across startups and large tech companies. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines front-end craftsmanship (React/Redux, VanillaJS) with backend and cloud experience (Java/Spring, Node on AWS Lambda, serverless microservices) to ship performant e-commerce and logistics products. He has held senior and staff roles at Instacart and NEXT Trucking and was the primary front-end engineer through Slice’s acquisition, showing a talent for owning end-to-end delivery. Comfortable modernizing legacy stacks and improving page performance, he also brings legacy enterprise experience from MySpace and AOL where he helped set cross-team standards. Notably, he bridges hands-on implementation with architectural guidance, making him effective both as a solver of urgent bugs and a steward of long-term platform health.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
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Michael Mantel - Staff Software Engineer at Instacart