Mike North
Software Engineer at Stripe
USA, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike 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.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
javascript10
ember-data10
testing10
css10
sass10
ember-cli10
typescript10
webpack10
javascript-framework10
python-course10
emberjs10
jestjs10
webpacker10
ember10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (17)
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.
js
mike-north/typescript-courses
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Mike North's TypeScript Courses
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 290 commits, 618 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the development of a flight booking application, enhancing both the front-end and back-end functionalities. Their work encompassed creating the initial application structure using Snowpack, implementing a JSON API server, and integrating TypeScript for type safety. They also focused on improving the website with new courses, including the course structure, content, and UI improvements.
typescript
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