Michael Menanno
Software Developer III at Babylist
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Menanno is a backend-focused Software Developer III with a decade of engineering experience and a strong Rails pedigree, having spent 8+ years at Shopify building systems that serve millions of users. He transitioned from technical support into development, which gives him practical insight into real user pain points and drove him to build tools like a DNS troubleshooting service later packaged as a gem for Shopify's admin. Michael has led impactful infrastructure work—identifying an SSL configuration bug that saved $500K annually, migrating test suites from RSpec to Minitest, and modernizing legacy services and CI/CD pipelines for faster, more reliable delivery. Comfortable across the stack, he prefers backend and infrastructure challenges, contributes to open source (including integrations for the Heimdall dashboard), and maintains several Rails projects such as a LunchMoney API wrapper and a self-hosted calendar aggregator. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he’s drawn to mission-driven teams using Ruby on Rails and advocates TDD and AI-assisted productivity in engineering workflows.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at George Brown Polytechnic
Github Skills (10)
php10
application-integration10
dashboard10
back-end-development9
web-development9
laravel-mix8
laravel8
front-end-development8
html7
css5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
linuxserver/Heimdall
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
An Application dashboard and launcher
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 12 PRs, 15 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to adding support for various applications to the Heimdall dashboard project. They added configuration files, icons, and blade templates, demonstrating a focus on integrating new services into the dashboard. These contributions involved both backend (PHP) and frontend (blade templates) work, enabling users to launch and configure various supported applications from within the Heimdall interface. The changes included modifications to the `Item.php` file, suggesting they are working with a core application structure.
nginxdashboardradarrbookmarkmuximux
halorrr/CommunityScrapers
May 2020 - Sep 2022
This will be a public repository containing scrapers created by the Stash Community.
Contributions:267 pushes, 172 branches in 2 years 4 months
public-repositorypythonstashscrapersscraper
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