Michael Taras
Staff Software Engineer at Asana
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Taras is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building reliable web products and leading engineering teams across startups and large tech firms. Based in New York, he has driven product launches and operational excellence at companies including Shopify, WorkPatterns, and now Asana, combining hands-on full-stack work with technical leadership. He excels at turning ideas into scalable, user-focused products—shipping everything from subscription systems that processed $50k MRR to accessibility-compliant tools used in high-impact nonprofit campaigns. Michael brings strong discipline in testing, CI, observability, and feature-flagged releases to maintain rapid iteration without sacrificing stability. He has a track record of modernizing legacy platforms and improving performance and deployability, and he pairs that with a collaborative approach to product and design. An engineer at Shopify on GitHub, he blends product-oriented thinking with practical execution across front-end, back-end, and operational concerns.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (22)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
rust-application9
checker9
programming-language7
sorbet7
rust7
webassembly7
recipe4
bluepill4
cookbook3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trumpet/trumpet
Apr 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:53 commits in 20 days
michaeltaras/dotfiles
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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