Michael Spiz
Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Spiz is a seasoned software engineer in Seattle with 15 years of experience building pragmatic, efficient teams and systems, currently contributing at Stripe. He excels at hiring, mentoring, and driving productivity through process automation and by tackling thorny technical debt to deliver measurable business impact. A hands-on backend developer, he has contributed performance-focused refactors to the widely used TechEmpower FrameworkBenchmarks project, optimizing Rails apps, caching with Redis, and streamlining middleware. He combines deep practical experience across startups and enterprises with a preference for simple, maintainable solutions that scale.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computing and Software Systems, Bachelors of Science, Computing and Software Systems at University of Washington
English, Polish
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Github Skills (15)
ruby-rails10
caching10
benchmark10
benchmarking10
rails10
performance-optimization10
ruby10
web-framework9
redis9
application-framework9
app-framework9
postgresql7
mysql7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to updating and refactoring the Rails application within the framework benchmark project. Their work included upgrading Rails versions, Ruby versions, and related gems. They also focused on optimizing the application by removing unnecessary middleware, configuring caching with Redis, and refactoring code for improved performance, including database query optimization and the use of Rails metal controllers.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
spizm/dotfiles
Feb 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:17 pushes in 5 years
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