Mike Samuel
Technical Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMike Samuel is a technical founder and CEO with 25+ years of engineering experience and 19 years of hands-on product work, including 17 years at Google where he co-created Google Calendar and scaled developer tooling for 15,000+ engineers. He specializes in developer productivity, secure systems design, and programming languages—proficient in 18 languages—and has influenced web standards via TC39 and the W3C. At Google he led security frameworks and sandboxing work (notably Google Caja) and received the Founders Award and OC Award for innovation and entrepreneurial impact. Today he is building a stealth developer platform aimed at eliminating cross-language inefficiencies he encountered scaling engineering systems. An active open-source contributor, his work improving HTML sanitizers and code-prettify reflects a long-running focus on safe, maintainable web tooling. Based in Denver, he blends deep systems expertise with a knack for turning language and security research into practical, widely used developer infrastructure.
19 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (68)
refactor10
security10
javas10
html-sanitization10
xss10
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javascript10
jquery10
internationalization10
html10
ecmascript10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/java-html-sanitizer
Apr 2015 - Jun 2022
Takes third-party HTML and produces HTML that is safe to embed in your web application. Fast and easy to configure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 34 reviews, 298 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike's commits focused on improving the codebase's maintainability and addressing code quality issues. They resolved FindBugs warnings and performed IDE warning cleanup, indicating a focus on code quality. Additionally, the user modernized and enhanced the HTML sanitization process by refining the code and preventing client-side template language misinterpretations. These contributions improved the codebase.
takespartyweb-applicationconfiguresafe
googlearchive/caja
Dec 2007 - Sep 2015
Caja is a tool for safely embedding third party HTML, CSS and JavaScript in your website.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Code Maintainer
Back-end Developer & Code MaintainerContributions:797 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike made several contributions to the Caja project, focusing on bug fixes and improving code quality. They addressed inconsistencies in the HTML sanitization process, specifically fixing issues related to missing semicolons and incorrect handling of attribute values. Their work also involved refactoring code related to CSS processing, including updates to the CSS parser and the support for CSS3 transitions. The user also addressed defects related to rendering, and fixing a null pointer exception in the DOM parser.
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