Michael Paris
Founder & CTO at Brace Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Paris is a founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering experience building cloud-native, developer-focused products and startups at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and serverless platforms. He founded Scaphold (acquired by AWS) and later contributed to AWS AppSync and the Amplify CLI, where he shipped GraphQL transformations, auth fixes, and improvements that eased serverless development. Now leading Brace Health, he’s vertically integrating healthcare back-office systems to lower costs and improve outcomes across the U.S. Comfortable scaling systems from prototype to acquisition, he blends product vision with hands-on backend work and a history of shipping robust distributed services. Based in Boston and trained at UVA, he brings entrepreneurial grit, large-scale cloud experience, and a practical focus on making complex healthcare infrastructure simpler for operators.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Norfolk AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (13)
graphql10
user-authentication10
authentication10
aws10
back-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
graphql-schema10
aws-amplify10
cli9
api9
serverless8
web-development7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-cli
May 2018 - Jul 2019
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 83 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael made significant contributions to the AWS Amplify CLI project, focusing on refining GraphQL transformations and related functionalities. Their work included renaming and refactoring code, specifically removing dependencies on AppSync where appropriate. They also added and updated documentation while implementing fixes related to the auth flows and fixing bugs. Furthermore, the user implemented support for providing custom ids for objects and added a test to check schema without directives.
amplify-cliaws-lambdaserverlessnotificationsstorage
mikeparisstuff/docs
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
AWS Amplify Documentation
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
aws-amplifyamplifyaws
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