Michael Sorensen
Software Engineer at Root
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Sorensen is a full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience building internal applications and automations that scale and save costs. He has driven reliability and tooling improvements at large organizations like Meta and Root, and at XIFIN automated 500+ manual processes yielding over $1M in annual savings while implementing TypeScript, ESM, and auditable Splunk logging. Comfortable across the stack, Michael has built task-tracking and deployment tools, refactored test suites to improve uptime, and rapidly learned complex toolchains (Mercurial, Hack, Flow) in high-stakes environments. Outside work he’s an avid outdoorsman and gamer, often testing ideas from personal projects while perched on a favorite rock in places like Yosemite and Joshua Tree—an indicator of his blend of curiosity, persistence, and practicality.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California San Diego - School of Extended Studies and Public ProgramsBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at California State University, Monterey BayAssociate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at San Diego Mesa College
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Github Skills (182)
cms10
postgresql10
payloadcms10
databases10
csrf10
authentication10
sap10
visual-studio10
auth10
javascript10
browser10
ionic10
editor10
backoffice10
api10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swordensen/vscode
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
KathLevi/gymratz
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:104 commits, 50 PRs, 74 pushes in 6 months
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