Michael Tyka
L6 Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Tyka is an L6 Staff Software Engineer at Google with 14 years of experience blending computational science, large-scale software engineering, and domain research. He currently develops global ocean circulation models to evaluate marine carbon dioxide removal approaches like Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement, bringing rigorous climate-focused modeling to production research. Prior work spans neuroscience connectomics, embedded ML, and a strong academic foundation in computational biophysics—he led protein structure prediction and free-energy method development as a postdoc and PhD researcher. Equally comfortable in high-performance simulation code and front-end UX fixes (notably contributing practical UI and validation improvements to the hicetnunc project), he bridges deep scientific expertise with pragmatic engineering. Based in Seattle, he combines a rare mix of molecular-scale modeling experience and scalable systems design to tackle environmental and biological computation challenges.
14 years of coding experience
PhD, Biophysics, PhD, Biophysics at University of Bristol
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
ui-design10
react10
daap9
tezos9
git8
input-validation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hicetnunc2000/hicetnunc
Mar 2021 - May 2021
hicetnunc UI/UX
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on front-end development, addressing bugs and implementing UI improvements within the hicetnunc project. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to URL encoding of tags and incorrect filter conditions within the user interface, impacting how the application processes data. The user also updated the FAQ and profile display pages, adding new content and UI elements, as well as adding range checks and improved input validation in the mint form. These changes enhanced the user experience and addressed critical functionality issues.
user-experiencetezosreactui-uxdapp
mtyka/attractor
Dec 2013 - Feb 2020
Attractor plugin for Blender
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 3 comments in 6 years 2 months
blender
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