Michael Mrowetz is a Backend Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver performant, scalable web and cloud systems. He combines hands-on engineering (full-stack work from frontend performance tooling to backend microservices and infrastructure automation) with servant leadership, having advised enterprise clients like SurveyMonkey, Kenvue, Uniqlo and NetApp on platform modernization and headless CMS adoption. Michael has a strong performance and DevOps pedigree—building reverse-proxy API gateways, containerized CI/CD pipelines, and internal cloud-gaming tooling at PlayStation—and he mentors teams through proof-of-concepts to production. He contributes to open-source tooling focused on front-end performance and data presentation, demonstrating attention to UX and metrics (for example improving a live performance bookmarklet’s data clarity). Based in Old Toronto, he blends deep technical breadth across Node, TypeScript, React/Next, GraphQL, Docker and Go with a pragmatic focus on measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Ing. (FH) - Graduate Engineer Media and Information Technology, Diplom Ing. (FH) - Graduate Engineer Media and Information Technology at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences
Performance-Bookmarklet helps to analyze the current page through the Resource Timing API, Navigation Timing API and User-Timing - requests by type, domain, load times, marks and more. Sort of a light live WebPageTest.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 releases, 38 commits, 32 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the user interface and data presentation of the performance bookmarklet. Their contributions included re-adding and improving table output for displaying performance metrics, enhancing the visual clarity of the data. They also removed the bookmarklet itself from the displayed results to prevent interference. Furthermore, the user addressed a typo, indicating a commitment to code quality and attention to detail.
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