Michael Storm
Full Stack Developer at Grove
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Storm is a Vice President of Engineering and founding engineer with 17 years of experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, and product-oriented full-stack applications. He has repeatedly scaled systems and teams—from designing an autoscaler that cut cloud utilization by 43% at Cruise to creating an event-sourced architecture that enabled rapid feature delivery at Grove. Comfortable operating as both an individual contributor and technical leader, he has founded and led startups (Aerovane, CareerWave) and driven backend architectures for consumer and infrastructure products. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed cross-platform build issues and improved robustness in the widely used Stellarium project, reflecting a pragmatic attention to portability and debugging. Based in San Francisco, he’s now focused on staff-level technical leadership roles at green tech and AI startups, bringing a mix of product instincts, deep systems design, and curiosity-driven side projects.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
c1710
debugging10
debug10
stellarium10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
c1110
qt9
windows9
astronomy3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Stellarium/stellarium
Dec 2008 - Nov 2012
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on adapting and fixing Windows build problems by modifying the `strptime.c` file within the `kdewin32` external source directory. They then implemented debugging features, logging debug output and system information to a log file, and added a log tab to the Help dialog within the application. Further refinements were made to the Help dialog's log tab, and Windows-specific system information was added to the log output. Additional contributions include handling HTTP redirects in the StelDownloadMgr and fixing case sensitivity issues.
unixc-plus-plusrealisticreal-timeuniverse
michaelstorm/neuron
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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