Michael Ting
Independent Game Developer at Self-Employed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Ting is an independent game developer and seasoned software engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable data infrastructure, developer-facing products, and full-stack UIs. As an early founding engineer at Alation, he helped invent and scale a machine-learning data catalog—leading backend-to-frontend rewrites, a move from on-prem monoliths to cloud microservices, and product management for a 25+ person global team. He combines deep technical breadth (Golang, Python, React, Kubernetes, DynamoDB, Godot/C#, GDScript) with applied research roots in bioengineering and synthetic biology, which inform his pragmatic approach to systems and automation. Now shipping solo indie games with Godot while continuing to consult and collaborate, he blends product intuition, customer-driven design, and hands-on engineering. An unexpected thread through his career is translating lab-scale experimentation into production software—building tools, docs, and processes that make complex systems approachable and repeatable.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Aliso Niguel High School
English, French, ChineseGithub contributions (4)
michaelting/ASCII_DNA_Translator
Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:19 commits in 1 month
michaelting/Phase_Correlation
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 11 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.