Michal Wallace
Founder at tangentcode
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichal Wallace is a pragmatic founder and generalist software developer with over three decades of experience and 20 years focused on professional software engineering. Based in New York, he has shipped full-stack web and API systems using eclectic stacks (K, Python, JavaScript and bespoke in-house languages) and led small businesses building hosting, billing and control-panel infrastructure. He has a strong QA and automation mindset—authoring test suites like the learntris test runner that enforce deterministic ordering, timeouts and diff-based failure reporting. Michal balances production work with curiosity-driven projects and education, creating videos about unusual programming languages like J and sharing unconventional technical perspectives. His background spans startups to enterprise teams, combining hands-on coding, tooling, and process improvements that keep complex systems reliable.
32 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
2 years Cognitive Science, 2 years Cognitive Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
python10
testing10
pexpect10
unit-test10
test-automation10
compilation9
oop9
subprocess9
multiple-inheritance6
githubaction-workflow6
j6
merge6
metaclass6
github-ci6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tangentcode/learntris
Feb 2013 - Jan 2018
a test suite to help you implement a famous falling blocks game
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:77 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michal focused on creating a test suite for the learntris project, implementing tests for basic game commands like 'q', 'p', and 'g'. They implemented the test runner and ensured tests ran in numerical order. They also modified the client code to filter output and added timeout functionality and diff output for output mismatches. Their primary contribution was establishing a testing framework and writing various test cases.
gamesuitefalling-blocks
tangentstorm/tangentlabs
Jul 2012 - Jan 2023
Contributions:750 commits, 2 PRs, 205 pushes in 10 years 8 months
javapythonlanguages
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