Mike Fortman
Lead Software Engineer, Langflow at IBM
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike Fortman is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building fast, accessible front-end experiences and micro-frontends, currently focused on Langflow and Gen AI integrations. He blends a full-stack background with a UI-first passion, shipping Web Components and React-based interfaces while exploring data visualization and animations. Mike has significant open-source contributions to LangChain.js—integrating Astra DB vector stores and chat message persistence—and has driven feature-flagged UI design uplifts in Langflow. Experienced across enterprise teams (DataStax, IBM, Capital One), he routinely bridges design and engineering to deliver pixel-perfect, accessible products. Based in Dallas and a UW–Madison alum, he pairs practical engineering with a knack for turning complex backend capabilities into clean, usable front-end experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonFranklin High School
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
typescript10
vector-database10
feature-flags10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
database-design9
nodejs9
apidoc8
api8
jtest8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
langflow-ai/langflow
Apr 2024 - May 2026
Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:191 reviews, 123 PRs, 244 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions primarily focus on front-end development within the Langflow project. They implemented and integrated feature flags, enhancing the UI with conditional elements and behaviors. The commits also involved updating the UI with new branding and social links. Furthermore, the user updated the UI and components based on the design uplift and design changes to the API dialog.
aireact-flowchatgptlarge-language-modelsgenerative-ai
langchain-ai/langchainjs
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
The agent engineering platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mike significantly contributed to integrating Astra DB, a vector database, into the LangChain.js ecosystem. Their work involved developing the Astra DB vector store, including functionality for adding and deleting vectors, as well as implementing similarity search and max marginal relevance search. Furthermore, the user added a message history store for chat applications based on Astra DB, providing a means for storing and retrieving chat message history. These contributions demonstrate a focus on integrating vector databases and enhancing the LangChain.js framework with persistence capabilities.
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