Michael Schaffer
Senior Software Engineer at Duolingo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Schaffer is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud systems and hardware-integrated education products, now at Duolingo in New York. He has a strong background at Google (Cloud Build and Ads Quality) designing reliable, high-throughput services and leading cross-team launches, and at ANTENNA where he architected data pipelines and automation that halved analysts' workload. As the founder of After School Robotics he combined embedded software, web development, and light manufacturing to ship a profitable teaching product and a Microsoft MakeCode extension that bridges browser JS/TS to USB-attached hardware. His early work spans kernel-mode security code, computer vision research, and custom lab hardware—demonstrating a hands-on comfort from firmware to cloud. Known for turning experimental prototypes into production systems, he brings a rare blend of product entrepreneurship and deep engineering across software, hardware, and education.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
English
Stackoverflow
75reputation
604reached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (50)
opencv10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
image-processing10
gcp10
deep-learning10
google10
google-cloud10
computer-vision10
google-cloud-build10
deep-reinforcement-learning9
reinforcement-learning9
python9
stereo9
rgb9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cwruRobotics/NASA-RMC-2017
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:401 commits, 127 PRs, 324 pushes in 7 months
SignalCraft/SignalCraft-Designer
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:174 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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