Michele Riva
TC39 Delegate
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichele Riva is a TC39 delegate and seasoned software leader with over a decade building scalable systems across startups and global enterprises. As co-founder and former CTO of Orama he authored three patents and built a Rust/Python distributed AI runtime and a JavaScript search engine that earned ~10k GitHub stars and serves millions of queries monthly. He has driven high-impact platform work at Paramount and NearForm—scaling messaging systems, architecting multi-tenant platforms, and leading ECMA/TC39 collaboration on internationalization. Based in San Francisco on an O-1 visa, Michele blends hands-on engineering, product strategy, and hiring leadership while navigating the standards that shape JavaScript. An avid open-source polyglot contributor (Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, Ruby, JS) he pairs practical algorithm implementations with UI integrations like Orama search on nodejs.org. Outside engineering he’s deeply engaged with philosophy—meta-ethics and phenomenology—bringing a reflective lens to technical and organizational decisions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Software Engineering at Purdue University
French, English
Stackoverflow
562reputation
89kreached
33answers
9questions
Github Skills (28)
algorithm10
javascript10
user-friendly10
elixir10
css10
fest10
nextjs10
friendly-url10
data-structure10
ruby10
cryptography10
html10
data-structures10
react10
rails-i18n9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
nodejs/nodejs.org
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
The Node.js® Website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 5 PRs, 74 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Michele primarily contributed to the implementation and integration of the Orama search functionality within the Node.js website. Their work involved creating search box components, integrating search results display, and managing the UI for search facets. They also focused on improving the user interface, optimizing mobile styles, and refactoring components for better structure. Additionally, the user addressed code style feedback and handled text management through i18n.
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ambujraj/hacktoberfest2018
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
A repository for HacktoberFest 2018.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michele contributed to various programming languages and implemented basic functionalities. The contributions include a factorial function implemented in Haskell, JavaScript, and OCaml. Additionally, the user added a "Hello World" program in Cobol. A typo was fixed in one of the OCaml files.
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