Michael Nelson
Senior Product Engineer at Jiga
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Nelson is a Senior Product Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience crafting scalable web products, specializing in JavaScript and TypeScript. He has led front-end and full-stack initiatives at companies from startups to publishers, building component libraries, headless CMS integrations, serverless workflows, and production-grade tooling. Known for simplifying complex systems, he pairs strong UX instincts with a taste for elegant, testable code and has driven platform-level work such as editorial publishing pipelines and reusable UI ecosystems. He’s comfortable owning both technical leadership and solo-builds—having co-founded a social app and grown teams as Head of JavaScript—so he blends product intuition with pragmatic delivery. Based in the UK, Michael also brings AWS and CI/CD expertise that consistently turns prototypes into reliable, shipped features.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Computer Science, Applied Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (90)
async10
rest10
maintenance10
crashlytics10
vue10
fetch10
redux10
react10
javascript9
push-notifications9
obsolete9
exports9
dependency-analysis9
react-native-app9
remote-config9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
accordionpeas/grunt-mocha-require-phantom
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 7 months
gruntgrunt-pluginbrowserstestingphantomjs
accordionpeas/nelsonbury
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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