Michael Tomcal
Senior Engineer II (AI & Developer Enablement) at American Express
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Tomcal is a Senior Engineer II specializing in AI and Developer Enablement with 13 years of experience building resilient front-end frameworks, developer tooling, and shared component ecosystems. Based in Phoenix, he has driven large-scale UI frameworks at American Express (One App) and contributed to open source at Zendesk, improving component libraries and performance-sensitive behaviors like DOM clean-up and grid splitters. He focuses on the "last mile" of AI—making LLMs and developer-facing tooling truly usable in production—bridging research, developer experience, and pragmatic engineering. His background spans bioinformatics pipelines to enterprise financial UIs, giving him a rare blend of scientific data-processing rigor and product-focused frontend architecture. Known for mentoring engineers, running framework training globally, and shipping pragmatic SRE and testing practices, he excels at turning complex platform needs into simple, scalable developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology General at Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
Github Skills (8)
component-development10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
styles8
css8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zendeskgarden/react-components
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
:seedling: garden React components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 111 reviews, 14 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of React components, focusing on improvements to the component library's type definitions and visual presentation. They addressed issues with placeholder proportions in the spinner component and updated the datepicker to remove calendar DOM elements when hidden, optimizing rendering performance. Furthermore, the user implemented a new splitter component for the grid layout, enhancing the library's capabilities and providing better control over pane arrangements.
reactgardenseedlingreact-components
uoregon/WPSpin
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:31 commits in 4 months
wordpressapiwordpress-pluginapi-service
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