Mike Green is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of full-stack experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at Simple Thread after senior engineering roles at Jane Technologies and LearnZillion. He builds resilient, data-informed web applications using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, TypeScript, React/Vue, PostgreSQL and Docker, and has a track record of integrating third-party APIs and analytics platforms like ThoughtSpot. A practical problem-solver, he has optimized performance with Redis and materialized views and contributed to open-source tooling such as the Pods Framework by integrating client-side UX improvements. Based in Richmond, VA, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and cross-team consulting, helping reduce manual work for partners and internal users. Outside of software he applies the same tinkering mindset to small-scale agriculture and IoT—raising cattle and chickens while prototyping ESP32 and Raspberry Pi projects—bringing a unique hardware-software perspective to product design.
The Pods Framework is a Content Development Framework for WordPress - It lets you create and extend content types that can be used for any project. Add fields of various types we've built in, or add your own with custom inputs, you have total control.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:240 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed significantly to the project by implementing and integrating the jQuery Chosen plugin. Their work involved adding the necessary JavaScript, CSS, and sprite image files for the plugin. The user also integrated the Chosen plugin into the Pods Admin class, registering scripts and styles, and resolving paths for the sprite image. Additionally, they added the jQuery library as a dependency for Chosen and enqueued the jQuery Chosen library.
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Mike Green - Principal Software Engineer at Simple Thread