Michael Whitman
Senior Backend Engineer at Steward
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Whitman is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building and supporting full-stack content delivery platforms, most recently focused on backend work at Steward after an eight-year tenure at Cloud CMS. He specializes in ensuring reliable end-to-end web content delivery and thrives in customer-facing roles, rapidly resolving production incidents and delivering pragmatic fixes under pressure. His experience spans enterprise deployments both SaaS and on-prem, and he brings hands-on knowledge across the stack from Java/.NET services to frontend frameworks learned during early internships and open-source contributions. Michael has improved UX and form tooling in the popular Alpaca project, adding field behaviors and join/split hooks that reflect a detail-oriented approach to developer-facing interfaces. A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumnus based in New York, he combines systems-level backend expertise with a knack for practical UI improvements that smooth developer and customer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computational Science, Bachelor of Science, Computational Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
html10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
handlebars9
bootstrap9
json-schema9
bootstra9
css8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gitana/alpaca
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Alpaca provides the easiest way to generate interactive HTML5 forms for web and mobile applications. It uses JSON Schema and simple Handlebars templates to generate great looking, dynamic user interfaces on top of Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile and HTML5.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the user interface of the Alpaca project. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to list field functionalities, specifically addressing issues with commas and boolean types, as well as implementing new features such as the ability to specify join and split functions. They also added enhancements to text fields like uppercase, lowercase, and trim support. Furthermore, the user made minor UI adjustments and corrected display issues.
bootstraphandlebarsjquery-mobilejquery-uijson-schema
gitana/cloudcms-packager
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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