Michael Nason
Senior Software Engineer, Platform
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Nason is a senior software engineer and platform builder with 12 years of experience designing maintainable, well-tested web and infrastructure systems across startups and high-growth companies. He combines hands-on full-stack development with SRE and platform responsibilities, having led engineering, security, and compliance efforts as a co-founder and principal architect at companies like Narrator, Arcee.ai, and Dupe.com. Based in New York, he focuses on reliability and developer happiness, mentoring teams and driving best practices for SDLC, AWS-centric infrastructure, and observability. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has deep practical experience refactoring and stabilizing middleware tests (e.g., work on redux-api-middleware), reflecting a knack for untangling legacy codebases and improving test quality.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
S19, S19 at Y CombinatorBachelor’s Degree, Biological Anthropology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biological Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
redux10
testing10
jestjs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
agraboso/redux-api-middleware
May 2017 - Jan 2020
Redux middleware for calling an API.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 103 commits, 61 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on updating and refactoring tests, as evidenced by the commit messages and file modifications. Their contributions centered on aliasing `RSAA` to `CALL_API`, a key update for a Redux middleware that interfaces with APIs. They also addressed test failures resulting from a 2.0 rebase, which suggests a strong understanding of the codebase and its evolution.
apireactcallingredux-middlewarereducer
nason/prezto
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:24 pushes in 7 years 3 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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