Michael Norman
Staff Software Engineer at Embrace.ai
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Norman is a seasoned Staff Software Engineer and technology leader with two decades of experience building and scaling software teams and products across Austin and beyond. He blends executive-level vision with hands-on engineering, having led platform and product organizations at companies like DISCO, RetailMeNot, Bazaarvoice, and eRelevance while also founding multiple startups. Michael has deep full-stack expertise—from Solidity smart contracts and GraphQL APIs to Kafka/Flink-based streaming platforms and React front-ends—demonstrating an unusual comfort shifting between low-level architecture and UX design. As founder of The Paypr Company and Norrio Capital Partners he’s translated blockchain research into production-ready tooling that hides complexity behind simple APIs. Known locally as a mentor and pragmatic player-coach, he repeatedly hires and grows engineering talent while driving measurable product and process improvements. Outside work he balances family life with continuous technical curiosity, a trait reflected in both his leadership roles and ongoing side projects.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering/Computer Science, BS Computer Engineering/Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaIola High School
Japanese, French, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
http-client10
gwt10
api10
sst10
reader10
facebook-api10
api-client10
smart-contracts10
rest-api10
grpc10
insomnia10
facebook10
graphql10
websocket10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mdnorman/node-aws-lambda-graphql-sapling
Sep 2018 - Nov 2023
Sapling for Node AWS Lambda projects using GraphQL
Contributions:47 PRs, 103 pushes, 50 branches in 5 years 3 months
aws-lambda-nodesaplingserverlessaws-lambdanodejs
mdnorman/node-aws-lambda-relay-graphql-example-todo
Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
Todo Example of Node AWS Lambda projects using GraphQL
Contributions:19 PRs, 39 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 1 month
todoaws-lambda-nodeserverlessaws-lambdanodejs
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