Mike Crittenden
Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub
Greer, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Crittenden is a Staff Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building high-performing engineering organizations and developer platforms, currently leading teams at GitHub. He specializes in people-first leadership—team jelling, psychological safety, and practical agile practices—while shaping technical strategy and platform roadmaps that scale across thousands of engineers. His background spans frontend platform work at Wayfair powering 100+ million daily pageviews, senior architect roles where he introduced Docker and content-as-code practices, and leadership at PlanetScale and GitHub focused on ops and people management. A daily blogger on team health and process, he pairs evidence-driven culture work with hands-on mentorship and process experiments that measurably improve delivery and morale.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Furman University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
5,837reputation
468kreached
100answers
73questions
drupal
top-1%
Github Skills (92)
github-enterprise10
drupal10
cli9
mysql-client9
hosting9
clustering9
backup9
command-line-tool9
planetscale9
binaries9
homebrew9
administration9
mysql9
shared-hosting9
macos9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fooforge/chef-cookbook_bind9
Sep 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 1 month
cookbookbind9chef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
travespielertreffen/travespielertreffen.de
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
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