Summary
Michael Smith is a founder and principal engineer with over a decade of experience building client-facing web and desktop applications, from Electron apps to native macOS tools. He has shipped SDKs and cross-platform tooling at Microsoft (App Center) and led billing, provisioning, and enterprise teams & identities work at GitHub, including efforts to bring GitHub into government cloud and commercial enterprise deployments. Michael combines full-stack fluency—TypeScript/React, Swift/SwiftUI, Ruby, C#, and containerized/AWS serverless systems—with operational focus on CI/CD, dependency management, and secure supply chains. As founder of Grata Labs he authors open-source SDKs and CLI tooling that power reproducible builds and developer productivity, and he built Notifopus, a privacy-focused macOS GitHub notifications app implementing OAuth device flow. He’s known for pragmatic architecture, fast OSS velocity, and a knack for turning complex enterprise requirements into polished, automatable developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience