Michael Sotkin
Software Engineer at Kindred
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Sotkin is a senior full-stack engineer with 10 years of experience building user-facing web and mobile products using React, React Native, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and Go. He has a strong product mindset—driving feature launches, UX improvements, and migrations that delivered measurable business impact such as doubling inventory clearance and cutting infrastructure costs at Opendoor. Comfortable leading cross-functional work, he’s shipped platform migrations, microservices, and Kafka-based eventing that improved conversion and reliability while mentoring and hiring engineers. Based in Fort Collins, he balances production-grade backend systems with polished front-end experiences and contributes to open-source JavaScript projects in his spare time. An English major by training, he brings clear communication and a user-centric perspective to complex technical challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature General, Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature General at University of Colorado Boulder
Japanese
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
javascript10
nodejs10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
node-library7
scale5
socket-io3
socket3
react2
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
msotkin/notelio-react-project
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
msotkin/imomsohard
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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