Mike Chlipala
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Chlipala is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable product and platform systems from startups to large orgs, currently shaping platform work at Figma in San Francisco. He excels at turning ambiguous, high-stakes problems into reliable, maintainable systems at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and developer experience, with a pragmatic focus on clean abstractions and strong system design. Mike has driven impactful work at GitHub—scaling notifications, reclaiming terabytes in MySQL, launching on-call practices and shipping features like auto-merge—and led AI-powered product features at Rewatch prior to its acquisition by Atlassian. As a founder and former CTO of Brat Box, he combines engineering rigor with entrepreneurial product ownership, and his playful “full of beans!” GitHub persona hints at an energetic, hands-on approach to engineering and collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSB, Information Systems, BSB, Information Systems at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (75)
ruby10
swiftype10
react-rails10
stripe-api10
asset-pipeline10
sprockets10
stripe10
webpacker10
react10
opensearch9
github9
circleci9
jsx9
tilemap9
rails9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikesea/thingsthattastegoodafterbrushingyourteeth.com
May 2013 - Aug 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
mikesea/stripe-ruby
Jul 2016 - Jun 2025
Stripe Ruby bindings
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years
striperuby-bindingsruby
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