Mike North
Tech Lead, Developer Platform
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolMike North is a seasoned tech lead and developer experience specialist with 14 years of engineering and product leadership, currently shaping Stripe’s Developer Platform and public APIs. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering—evidenced by long-running open-source contributions to Ember.js and production-grade TypeScript courseware—with a strong focus on usability, developer delight, and pragmatic team enablement. Mike runs Mike.Works to deliver bespoke developer training to top engineering teams and has a track record of driving org-wide standards and API design patterns that become industry reference points. Equally comfortable refactoring core framework internals or designing SDK/tooling and test infrastructure, he brings a rare mix of UX research, teaching, and deep technical fluency. An instructor at Frontend Masters and former senior engineer at LinkedIn and Yahoo, he’s known for turning complex cross-cutting problems into simple, adoptable practices.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St. Andrews Episcopal School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
javascript10
ember-data10
testing10
css10
sass10
ember-cli10
typescript10
webpack10
python-course10
emberjs10
javascript-framework10
jestjs10
webpacker10
ember10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mike-north/js-ts-monorepos
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
Mike's JS/TS Monorepos Course
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:115 commits, 7 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributes to the monorepo project by implementing type guards and defining types using TypeScript. They have also contributed to setting up API reporting and generating API documentation. Additionally, they have refactored project scripts to improve build and linting workflows across the monorepo structure. Their work spans both the frontend and backend development processes.
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mike-north/professional-ts
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Mike North's Production-Grade TypeScript course
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 86 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike implemented responsive design elements in the front-end application, ensuring cross-device compatibility. They integrated React components and utilized routing functionalities for navigation within the application. Furthermore, the user worked on setting up a JSON server to simulate an API, which included configuring API endpoints and rewriting rules. Their contributions appear focused on building the user interface and integrating it with a backend data source.
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