Michael Tierney
Senior Staff Frontend Engineer, Invest at SoFi
Lynnwood, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Tierney is a Senior Staff Frontend Engineer with 17 years of experience crafting polished, accessible user interfaces and guiding UI engineering practices at scale. He’s led front-end teams and shipped complex web products across startups and enterprises, including multiple senior roles at AWS and now leading Invest frontend at SoFi. Equally fluent in design and engineering, Michael combines a BFA in Visual Communications with deep front-end expertise (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and experience in Rails and PHP to bridge product, design, and implementation. He has a track record of establishing UI standards, mentoring teams, and managing remote, cross-functional projects. An illustrator and icon designer by training, he brings a designer’s eye to usability and detail that often surfaces as subtle but impactful UX refinements.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaUniversity of Washington
English
Github Skills (36)
slugify10
ascii10
ascii-art10
ruby9
react9
omniauth7
react-components7
javascript7
material-ui7
material-design6
selectize6
angularjs6
typescript6
ldap6
multiselect6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
miketierney/artii
Aug 2010 - Oct 2016
A small gem to generate ASCII art from text fed in to it
Contributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 2 months
artasciiascii-artslugifyruby
mobomo/front-end-style-guide
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 comment in 10 months
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