Michael Shilman
Sr. Technical Product Manager at Storybook
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Shilman is a senior technical product manager and veteran builder who has spent 20+ years designing, shipping, and scaling developer-focused software, currently leading Storybook—an industry-standard UI dev tool used by 100k+ teams and embedded in half the Fortune 100. He blends hands-on engineering (from creating Chromatic’s cross-browser rendering engine to front-end contributions in the Storybook repo) with product leadership, having led 15+ major launches and hired and managed distributed engineering teams. A founder at heart, Michael grew Storybook from community project to category leader (25M+ monthly downloads, 82k+ GitHub stars) and previously bootstrapped fintech and analytics products that earned broad media and market traction. He keeps a rigorous, data-informed approach to product decisions, established Chromatic’s analytics and data warehousing, and has deep research roots with a PhD-level background in recognition and machine learning. Not obvious from the title: he’s also handled DNS and DevOps duties for large open-source domains, showing a willingness to dive into infrastructure details to keep developer experiences smooth.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
domain-name10
netlify10
storybook10
component-development10
ui-design10
custom-domain10
uid10
github-pages10
front-end-development10
dns10
subdomain10
react10
addon9
typescripts8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/storybook
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1175 releases, 2962 reviews, 14936 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily revolve around Storybook, with a focus on the development and maintenance of UI components. They fixed linting issues, renamed components and made improvements to the code panel. The user also worked on documentation aspects, including adding and integrating the table of contents and fixing various layout issues, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the developer experience and code presentation within the Storybook ecosystem.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
storybookjs/design-system
May 2019 - Jan 2023
🗃 Storybook Design System
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 207 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on setting up and configuring Storybook for the "Storybook Design System" repository. Their contributions included adding essential Storybook configurations, such as addons and presets, and integrating a Chromatic/CircleCI pipeline for visual testing. They also upgraded Storybook docs and converted default exports to named exports within the project's component files and stories. Their work streamlined the development process and improved documentation generation.
reactstyled-componentsstorybookdesign-systemtypescript
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