Michael Santelia
Senior Software Engineer at CoreStory
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Santelia is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with 11 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused full-stack systems from startups to enterprise scale. He blends Agile, DevOps, and UX research to make data-driven product decisions—often using A/B testing and direct user feedback—to deliver intuitive interfaces and efficient back-end services. Known internally as "The Cleaner," he has a track record of rapidly untangling complex legacy systems and creating automated reporting and tooling that drive measurable business impact. His background includes leading ibm.com’s global web platform, delivering multi-million-dollar savings with rapid prototypes at IBM, and recently architecting API-driven client apps and OpenAI-enhanced sales tools. Based in Raleigh, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and strong standards for security, accessibility, and performance.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Marketing, BS Marketing at East Carolina University
English
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Github Skills (41)
audit10
performance-analysis10
frontend10
javascript9
lighthouse9
jquery9
django9
responsive9
css9
design-patterns9
react9
auditing9
developer-tools9
html9
graphql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/page-lab
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
PageLab enables web performance, accessibility, SEO, etc testing at scale.
Contributions:24 commits, 27 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 month
accessibilityseotestingweb-performancegoogle-lighthouse
ecumike/page-lab-sampledata
Nov 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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