Michael Young
Staff Software Engineer, Prepared at Axon
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Young is a staff software engineer with 12 years building full-stack products and developer-facing tooling across startups and scale-ups, currently working on Prepared (acquired by Axon). He specializes in TypeScript, Node, React and has production experience with Go, Python and SQL, often owning zero-to-one projects and internal platforms that amplify team productivity. As an early hire and founding engineer at multiple companies, he blends hands-on implementation with product-oriented systems design—recently shipping AI-driven sales agents and emergency-response orchestration. His background spans developer platform work at Zapier, integrations at WorkOS, and founding CTO duties at a healthtech startup, reflecting a knack for shipping reliable, user-focused services. Based in Houston, he values building internal tooling and no-code/productivity solutions that remove friction for colleagues and customers alike. An understated strength is translating cross-functional needs into maintainable infra—turning messy operational problems into repeatable software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems at San José State University
Github Skills (176)
postgresql10
storybook10
highlight10
databases10
hybrid10
sql-query10
javascript10
browser10
react-framework10
orm-library10
compiler10
inline-styles10
crud10
database10
sqlite10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mjyoung/express-jwt-knex-boilerplate
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
mjyoung/nextjs-boilerplate-shadcn-prisma-nanoid-auth
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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