Mike Griffith
Full Stack Developer at Stripe
Tallmadge, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMike Griffith is a seasoned full stack developer and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building cloud-native, cross-platform products that blend thoughtful design with robust architecture. Currently a Staff Engineer at Stripe, he has held progressive technical and management roles at BoxCast—rising from VP of UX to Director of Engineering and staff engineering positions—where he shipped hardware+software streaming products. He specializes in scalable web and mobile systems, data visualization, video streaming, security, and developer-centric testing and workflows, and enjoys working in small, lean teams that iterate quickly. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the widely used Clappr web media player by enhancing audio-only playback, custom media controls, and adding tests to harden behavior. Based in Tallmadge, Ohio, Mike pairs hands-on implementation with coaching and process refinement to raise team velocity. He’s as comfortable sketching UX solutions as he is architecting backend services, which makes him a pragmatic bridge between design and engineering.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Case Western Reserve University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
clappr10
javascript10
360-video10
video-player10
player10
html10
html5-video10
unit-testing9
css9
base646
jquery6
python6
gruntjs6
facebook6
ajax6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
clappr/clappr
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
:clapper: An extensible media player for the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 20 PRs, 58 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on improving the Clappr media player's functionality and user experience. They fixed bugs related to player behavior when loading with no source, specifically addressing issues with the `requestAnimationFrame` and event unbinding. They also implemented features to improve audio-only playback and extend the media control component by adding support for custom templates and stylesheets. Finally, they added tests to ensure that custom media control extensions function correctly.
dashhtml5-audiohtml5-videomp4javascript
boxcast/boxcast-sdk-js
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
The official BoxCast SDK for integrating with the BoxCast API in JavaScript applications.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 108 commits in 2 years 10 months
apijavascriptsdkvideo-streamingnpm
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