Michael Whiter
Technical Lead II at HubSpot
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Whiter is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling full-stack systems and revenue-driving funnels, now serving as Technical Lead II in New York. He pairs hands-on expertise in Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, React, and MySQL with a track record of modernizing monoliths into microservices, improving performance and observability, and architecting features that shifted product-led acquisition to generate measurable revenue. As an engineering manager he prioritizes career development, engineering rigor, and inclusive team culture while driving technical roadmaps and reducing technical debt. His background includes mission-critical work at Clover (where he cut config update cycles from weeks to minutes) and launching a greenfield funnel at Angi that contributed materially to company revenue. He also contributes to community projects like the Civilization V Community Patch, showing a detail-oriented interest in game AI and applied backend logic.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brooklyn College
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
lua10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
game-ai10
modi9
amazon-rds6
e2e-testing6
aws-security-group6
database-connection6
testing6
mysql6
nestjs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LoneGazebo/Community-Patch-DLL
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
Community Patch for Civilization V - Brave New World
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 30 commits, 33 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the game's AI logic, specifically focusing on how the AI handles vassalage deals and diplomacy. They fixed a bug preventing diplomacy requests when liberating civilizations and prevented the shadow AI from setting taxes. Additionally, the user made changes to the vassalage overview in the LUA, focusing on the display and functionality related to master and vassal interactions.
community-patchpatchnew-worldsdl2civilization-v
mwhiter/C4DF-Standalone
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 26 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 month
civilizationcivilization-ivstandalone
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