Mikael Manukyan is a versatile software engineer based in Los Angeles with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning backend, frontend, and machine learning roles. He quickly pivoted from web development into ML early in his career, earning an ML engineer role through rapid self-driven learning and practical delivery. Mikael is known for attention to detail and team leadership, mentoring peers and teaching at universities and coding schools. His open-source contributions touch notable projects—improving reliability in Cloud Foundry's gorouter, enhancing React Select's robustness, and extending Scrapinghub’s Splash browser API—demonstrating comfort across systems, UI, and scripting layers. Equally at home in hackathons or embedded tinkering with Arduino, he enjoys continuous technical challenges that broaden his skill set.
Lightweight, scriptable browser as a service with an HTTP API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:58 commits, 7 PRs, 107 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mikael implemented new features and expanded the API for the `splash` project, a scriptable browser as a service. They introduced a `with_timeout` API, including tests for its functionality, and improved the existing API for the project. The commits involved modifications to the Lua modules used for the project, and the implementation of features for the QT render. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the browser service.
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of the gorouter. Their contributions included adding the ability to print stack traces when handlers panic, and refactoring the access logging system by adding a new logsender, incorporating tags for log messages. They also made test improvements, extracting a status code to a constant and waiting for route service tests to start.
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