Michael Thorne
Software Engineer at Riot Games
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Thorne is a seasoned software engineer with 12+ years building responsive web experiences and service-based architectures, currently designing sites and backend services that power League of Legends at Riot Games. He specializes in Node.js, front-end UX, content management and localization systems—having delivered a global News CMS serving 15+ languages, analytics and asset optimization services, and esports tournament sites. A pragmatic communicator and agile practitioner, he emphasizes requirements-gathering and team cohesion to avoid costly rework. Michael’s earlier work as a Drupal themer, consultant and open-source contributor reflects a long-running focus on front-end presentation and pattern libraries, with GitHub contributions improving style guide UX and display robustness. Based in Long Beach, he combines a biology-trained curiosity with deep web engineering craft, often bringing interdisciplinary empathy to product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (6)
html10
styles10
front-end-development10
jekyll9
javascript5
css3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
maban/styleguides
Nov 2014 - Mar 2016
Documenting resources related to front-end style guides and pattern libraries
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 17 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the front-end of the style guide repository. Their contributions include fixing display issues, updating the meta viewport, and modifying the content of the home and podcast pages. They also updated the code to fix a title display bug when images are present on the home page. The user's work shows a focus on the presentation and content of the style guide.
style-guidescssfront-endpattern
michaelthorne/epg
Apr 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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