Michael Plotke
Greater Milwaukee United States
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Top SchoolMichael Plotke is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience delivering pragmatic, secure, and user-focused web and desktop applications. He has led migrations and refactors—most recently replacing Electron with WebView2 in a C# .NET product—while mentoring teams to reduce legacy complexity and close high-severity security gaps. Comfortable across TypeScript/React front-ends and backend stacks, he has driven UI overhauls, scheduling algorithm integrations, and automated end-to-end Windows test suites. An active open-source contributor, Michael has improved UX and mobile behavior for the popular Cerebral JS project’s website, demonstrating attention to polish as well as architecture. Based in Greater Milwaukee, he blends hands-on coding with clear scoping, documentation, and knowledge transfer to keep projects on time and maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of WashingtonAssociate of Science (AS), 3.67, Associate of Science (AS), 3.67 at North Seattle Community College
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (16)
css10
javascript10
website-design10
mobile-development10
website-development10
react10
ui-design9
z-index6
eclipse6
font-size6
linux6
bash6
android6
viewpager-indicator6
android-fragments6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cerebral/cerebral
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Declarative state and side effects management for popular JavaScript frameworks
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on the website component of the Cerebral project. Their contributions centered on enhancing the user interface and layout, as seen in the numerous fixes for layout bugs and mobile menu improvements. They also added new features like a navigation footer and improved the appearance and compatibility of the hamburger menu icon. The work involved extensive CSS modifications and React component updates to improve the website's usability.
reactstate-managementjavascriptdeclarativeside-effects
bdjnk/mini_sun
Jun 2013 - Feb 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 6 pushes, 3 comments in 5 years 8 months
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