Michael Sepcot
Fitness & Activity Engineer, Apple Watch
Burlingame, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Sepcot is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling mobile and web products, currently shaping Fitness & Activity features for Apple Watch. He blends hands-on iOS engineering with people leadership, having led accessibility, performance, and modularization initiatives at Twitter and driven product-focused teams at TuneIn. Michael has a track record of reducing platform pain—e.g., slashing p90 disk writes and shortening edit-compile-run cycles—while launching cross-platform experiences like CarPlay, Catalyst, and Apple Watch integrations. He champions cross-disciplinary collaboration and developer productivity programs (Discovery Days, unified hiring pipelines) that convert experimentation into shipped features. Based in Burlingame with advanced training in software engineering, he brings a pragmatic mix of systems thinking, accessibility advocacy, and a knack for turning technical debt into measurable velocity improvements.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
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ruby
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migration
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-1%
Github Skills (15)
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
migration9
playing8
api-client7
api7
floating-point6
capistrano6
activerecord6
routes6
forms6
regex6
multidimensional-arrays6
1password4
ios3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
msepcot/octomino
Jun 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years
ios-apppooldiveiosintermediate
msepcot/great_schools
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
A Ruby interface to the GreatSchools API.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
api-clientapiruby
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