Michael Spang
Principal at Lighthouse
Town of Macedon, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Spang is a principal-level leader with 13 years of experience at the intersection of marketing, media, and music, now based in Town of Macedon, New York. He has a strong research and strategy background from senior roles at Kodak, Harvey Spencer Associates, and Infosource, translating market intelligence into product, pricing, and go-to-market decisions. At Lighthouse he combines that commercial insight with hands-on technical contributions, including back-end and infrastructure work on high-profile open-source projects like Project CHIP (Matter), where he modernized code, streamlined builds, and introduced reproducible tooling via Pigweed. His career blends enterprise forecasting and customer-voice research with practical engineering improvements, making him skilled at bridging business strategy and developer workflows. An MBA and longtime adjunct instructor, he’s comfortable mentoring teams and turning complex market data into actionable plans. Notably, he pairs legacy-industry market acumen with current open-source engineering practices—an unusual mix that accelerates product-market fit.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology at Canisius CollegeMBA, Graduate Management Program, MBA, Graduate Management Program at State University of New York at Buffalo - School of Management
Github Skills (19)
git10
vulkan10
c-language10
scripting10
bash10
script10
opengl-es10
cprogramming-language10
makefile9
fuchsia8
matter-js8
smart-device8
homeconnect8
iot8
connections8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Infrastructure Engineer
Back-end Developer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:2068 reviews, 379 commits, 999 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on code refactoring and modernization within the codebase. They made consistent improvements in the structure of the code by prefixing includes in both inet and core directories and removing unnecessary include paths. The user also added a dependency on Pigweed, a Google project providing libraries for embedded development, enabling a more reproducible development environment. The user merged duplicate repository information and introduced scripts to update submodules, thereby streamlining build and development workflows.
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mspang/connectedhomeip
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Project Connected Home over IP is a new Working Group within the Zigbee Alliance. This Working Group plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet.
Contributions:80 commits, 8 PRs, 667 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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