Michael Shearer
Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Mezmo
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Shearer is a senior backend engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems and client-facing web and mobile apps, currently focused on backend work at Mezmo. He combines functional-programming fluency (Clojure, Elixir, Elm, ClojureScript) with recent systems-level work in Rust, WASM/WASI, gRPC and CRDTs, enabling him to lead architecture for event-sourced and secure streaming platforms. Michael has a track record of shipping full-stack products quickly—from a native Swift iOS proof-of-concept to React Native rebuilds and Elixir/Phoenix backends—and has served as CTO, lead engineer, and consultant across startups. Based in Boise, he brings a practical blend of product-minded engineering and low-level systems curiosity, informed by an unusual academic background in music theory and composition.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Music Theory and Composition, Music Theory and Composition at Boise State University
Github Skills (76)
externs10
closure10
immutablejs10
dot-notation10
stateless10
typescript10
persistent10
numeric10
clojurescript10
javascript9
clojure9
typescript-definitions9
clojars9
material-ui9
persistent-data9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shearerbeard/dotfiles
May 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
Shearerbeard/Epoch
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Event Sourcing + CQRS Framework
Contributions:5 reviews, 49 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
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