Michael Smith
Software Engineer Core Team, United States
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a pragmatic software engineer with 9 years’ experience driving frontend and full-stack projects to completion, currently on Coder’s Core Team in Philadelphia. He led the release of Coder’s official SDK and Windows RDP module, helped migrate critical services for 100% uptime, and routinely reviews ~45 PRs/month as a frontend code owner. Comfortable across React, TypeScript, cloud CI, and custom build systems, he has a track record of improving performance and developer experience—from data-fetching architectures to debounced UI hooks. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed UI/UX bugs and added robust tests to high-impact repos like coder/coder and the Swell API tool. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions, hiring criteria, and bridging design and engineering to ship accessible, enterprise-ready products.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
component-development10
web-components10
front-end-development10
frontend10
react10
golang9
go9
error-handling9
backend9
test-framework8
testing8
terraform7
terraformer7
api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/Swell
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 61 commits, 2 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on front-end development and refactoring within the `swell` repository. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to React Hooks usage, adding error boundaries to React components, and refactoring the update pop-up component. The user also made minor updates to documentation comments and fixed a typo in the webpack configuration for static files, demonstrating a basic understanding of build processes.
grpcendpointsendpointswellmonitoring
coder/coder
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Provision remote development environments via Terraform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:661 reviews, 159 PRs, 636 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael made several contributions focused on enhancing the front-end and back-end of the application. They addressed UI bugs within the workspace search bar, refactored codebase to improve filter logic, and introduced new features like remembering text within the workspace search bar. They also updated components and refactored code using `useDebouncedFunction` and added tests for hooks and components. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of the project's front-end technologies (likely React) and back-end logic related to the development environment.
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