Mike Dory
Sr. Staff UX Engineering Manager at Google DeepMind
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMike Dory is a Sr. Staff UX Engineering Manager at Google DeepMind in Seattle with 15 years of experience blending design, prototyping, and engineering to shape user experiences for complex systems. He started and led technical teams at creative agencies (including co-founding Socialbomb, acquired by Refinery29) and later scaled product and UX engineering across Google, moving from prototyping lead to senior staff roles. Trained at NYU ITP and a former adjunct professor, he pairs academic depth and teaching experience with practical delivery—he’s also co-author of O’Reilly’s Introduction to Tornado and contributed full‑stack sample code that supports the book. Known as a “technical Swiss Army knife,” he moves comfortably between front-end UI, server-side architecture, and rapid experimental prototypes, with work featured in major press outlets. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambitious AI and interactive concepts into polished, production-ready experiences.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MPS ITP Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), MPS ITP Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York UniversityBA Journalism English, BA Journalism English at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (15)
html10
tornado10
web-development10
templater10
template-engine10
python10
css9
asp-net6
twitter6
javascript6
embed6
android6
wrapper6
openid6
facebook6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Introduction-to-Tornado/Introduction-to-Tornado
Oct 2011 - Feb 2018
This is the sample code for the Introduction to Tornado book, published by O'Reilly Media.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the project by implementing and refining features related to Tornado web applications, including template extensions and UI modules. They added and modified HTML templates, CSS, and JavaScript files. The commits demonstrate a focus on structuring the application, including the use of UI modules, static files and the integration of HTML templates and CSS for front-end presentation.
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