Michelle Inez
Staff Software Engineer at Kiva
Camas, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Inez is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed enterprise infrastructure and blockchain-driven identity systems. She blends a cognitive-science background in AI and HCI with hands-on product and UI design, having been the sole front-end and UX engineer at an early blockchain startup and led teams at Nutanix and Kiva. At Kiva she shipped open-source SDKs and large-scale national identity pilots—helping generate millions of digital identity wallets—and lived on the ground in Sierra Leone to iterate with regulators and banks. She has deep experience designing datacenter management workflows, permissioning and upgrade systems, and prototyped decentralized compute markets integrating IPFS/Akash-style technologies. An early Bitcoin follower who built her first website at nine, she brings a rare mix of research-driven curiosity (from psycholinguistics and HCI work) and pragmatic product execution across startups and public enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Indonesian, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
bem9
css-modules9
ssi8
vue8
redux8
webpack7
sdk7
ethereum7
react7
mobile5
verification5
security4
javascript3
transaction2
verifiable2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kiva/protocol-hub
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
A configurable app hub to deploy front facing SSI web applications.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 10 PRs in 6 months
web-applicationsssiconfigurable
kiva/protocol-ui-kit
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:13 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
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