Michel Herszak
Backend Developer at Base2Industries
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMichel Herszak is a backend developer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and migrating heavy desktop-style industrial clients to browser-first solutions. He contributes to open-source projects like Vulcan.js, where he has worked across components, forms, email templates and accounts, demonstrating comfort with both frontend and backend concerns. Comfortable with React, GraphQL and Meteor ecosystems, Michel blends practical engineering with product-focused improvements that simplify developer workflows. As a podcaster on Berlin Robotics, he pairs technical depth with a strong interest in robotics and industrial applications, bringing cross-domain insight to software design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers shipping incremental, testable changes that improve maintainability and user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
385reputation
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15answers
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
meteor10
react10
html8
css8
mongodb-database7
mongodb7
socket6
feathersjs6
database6
toolkits6
android6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VulcanJS/Vulcan
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
🌋 A toolkit to quickly build apps with React, GraphQL & Meteor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 39 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michel contributed to multiple areas of the Vulcan.js project. They addressed a missing component import, modifying the user edit functionality within the `nova-base-components` and `nova-forms` packages. They also made changes related to email templates and routes in the `nova-base-components` and `nova-email` packages and updated packages in the `nova-lib` and `nova-base-components` packages. Additional changes included modifying `comments` and `accounts` components.
reactmeteorreact-graphqlserver-renderingtoolkit
MHerszak/meteor-react-starter
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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