Michiel Baird
Software Engineering Manager at Asana
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichiel Baird is a software engineering manager in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and operating distributed systems. At Asana he progressed from senior engineer to manager, leading teams that design, deploy, and maintain scalable backend services for collaboration software. He blends hands-on engineering experience with team-building and operational ownership, ensuring systems are reliable in production. Trained in computer science and applied mathematics at the University of Cape Town, he brings analytical rigor to product and architecture decisions. An early background in frontend work at Google and diverse engineering roles in startups gives him a pragmatic, full-stack perspective that helps bridge product, UX, and infrastructure tradeoffs.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, BSc, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics at University of Cape Town
Afrikaans
Github Skills (41)
vendor10
atmel10
firmware10
commercial10
3d-printing10
workbench10
esp3210
arduino10
kazoo9
avr9
python8
3d-printer8
printer8
apache-zookeeper8
uart7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michielbaird/Marlin
Mar 2019 - Sep 2023
Optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform.
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
firmwarereprap3d-printeratmelarduino
michielbaird/VisJitViewer
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 1 month
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