Michael Sun
Forward Deployed Engineer Enterprise at Scale AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sun is a software engineer with six years of hands-on experience building backend systems and production agents for enterprise clients, currently focused as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Scale AI. He previously shipped issue-detection and error-management features at Sentry and contributed backend improvements to the widely used open-source Sentry project, including group management and view-sharing migrations. As a founding engineer at YC-backed Zage, he built core payment infrastructure and cross-platform SDKs that dramatically shortened merchant integration times. A dual CS and Math student from UIUC and an active startup community leader, he blends rigorous technical foundation with product-minded execution. Based in San Francisco, he pairs interest in applied AI agents and consumer tech with practical experience consulting Fortune 500 customers.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science, Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science at Siebel School of Computing and Data ScienceFull Stack Engineering Bootcamp, Full Stack Engineering Bootcamp at Horizons School of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Pingry SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
api10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
django10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:669 reviews, 633 PRs, 1120 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Sentry platform, specifically focusing on issue management, including the addition of various features and fixes related to group management, and creating a migration for data related to view sharing. The user's work included refactoring the errorConfig component, including several new features for creating, updating and managing views, and adding data for the page filters. The user also worked on a migration to add columns to the groupsearchview table.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
MichaelSun48/Dataview
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
A data visualization tool that filters and displays vehicle sales data in an intuitive manner
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
displaysfiltersintuitivesalesvehicle
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