Mike Fotinakis
Founder & CTO at Ethos
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMike Fotinakis is a founder and CTO with 17 years of engineering experience building and scaling developer-focused products and platforms. He founded Percy, pioneering the category of visual testing from a solo project to a VC-backed business and exit, and now leads Ethos, an end-to-end Model Risk Management platform for financial services. Prior roles at BrowserStack and Google showcase his ability to ship reliable, high-scale systems and lead product and engineering teams through acquisition and growth. He combines hands-on backend engineering—evident from meaningful open-source contributions to Rails tooling like swagger-docs—with product intuition and operational rigor. Known for modernizing messy codebases into well-tested systems, he blends technical depth, hiring and mentoring experience, and a knack for turning developer pain points into scalable products. Based in the New York City area, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a practical focus on developer workflows and risk-aware infrastructure.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Utah State University
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Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
unix10
apidoc10
bash10
rails10
swagger10
ruby10
api10
django9
django-templates9
json8
type-conversion6
sprockets6
binary-files6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
richhollis/swagger-docs
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Generates swagger-ui json files for Rails APIs with a simple DSL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 8 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Mike focused on enhancing the functionality of the swagger-docs gem for Rails applications. Their contributions include adding support for Rails Engines, refactoring code to use `Rails.application`, implementing the ability to transform API paths, and incorporating support for Swagger models. These changes improved the flexibility and completeness of the gem, making it easier to integrate with various Rails application structures and Swagger specifications. The user also addressed merge conflicts and updated documentation.
apirailsdsljson-filesswagger-ui
fotinakis/growsdk.org
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:42 PRs, 69 pushes, 37 branches in 10 months
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