Mike Bifulco
Co-founder, CTO at APIs You Won't Hate
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMike Bifulco is a founder and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building developer-focused products and teams, currently serving as Co-founder and CTO of Craftwork where he leads a full‑stack team shipping Rails, Next.js, React Native, Postgres and pragmatic ML/vision features to modernize home services. He previously shaped developer experiences at Stripe and Google as a Staff Developer Advocate and Tech Lead, creating multi‑language SDK guidance and content for large ecosystems. A serial entrepreneur and communicator, Mike co-founded APIs You Won’t Hate, hosts developer podcasts, and writes the Tiny Improvements newsletter sharing practical product and front‑end engineering advice. His background spans product, UX and systems work—from founding smpl (acquired) to rebuilding mobile apps and running open source community projects—so he moves comfortably between strategy and code. Based in Charlotte, he brings a rare mix of developer advocacy, hands‑on engineering, and operational product leadership that helps translate complex tech into usable services for businesses and end users.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
S23 Batch, S23 Batch at Y CombinatorMaster's Human Computer Interaction, Master's Human Computer Interaction at DePaul UniversityVirginia TechBSE Mechanical Engineering Computer Science, BSE Mechanical Engineering Computer Science at University of Connecticut
Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
swagger10
visual-studio10
linter10
openapi10
jsx10
browser10
api10
html10
vagrant10
json10
static-site-generator10
api-blueprint10
nodejs10
svelte10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
mbifulco/primaryfocus-blog
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
Blog site for primaryfocus, built with Remix
Contributions:34 PRs, 54 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 1 month
blog-sitereacttailwindcsstypescriptnextjs
gymnasium/gym-front-end
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
gatsby / takeshape front end project for Gymnasium on Open edX
Contributions:178 commits, 354 PRs, 388 pushes in 1 year 8 months
gatsbyreactedxgymnasiumtakeshape
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