Mike Skalandunas
Principal Software Engineer at Yext
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Skalandunas is a Principal Software Engineer and platform architect with 11 years of experience designing high-leverage web platforms and micro frontend architectures, now shaping developer-facing systems at Yext from Seattle. He has repeatedly led large-scale decompositions of monolithic UIs into microfrontends, cutting deploy times and bundle sizes dramatically while improving operability and developer velocity. Comfortable across the stack, Mike combines TypeScript/React front-end expertise with AWS serverless and infra-as-code practices, and has shepherded org-wide shifts like TypeScript adoption and standardized UI patterns. His work includes a notable open-source contribution to MDN’s web-components examples, demonstrating practical UI component craftsmanship. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also brings a creative background in music and game audio, which informs a user-centered, iterative approach to interaction and experience design.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Music; Bachelor of Business Clarinet Performance and Music Business, Bachelor in Music; Bachelor of Business Clarinet Performance and Music Business at University of HartfordBachelor in Music Film & Game Scoring, Bachelor in Music Film & Game Scoring at Berklee College of Music
Github Skills (4)
html10
javascript10
web-components10
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/web-components-examples
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
A series of web components examples, related to the MDN web components documentation at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the development of web components within the repository. Their work included creating an expanding list web component and an editable list web component, both demonstrating an understanding of web component structure and functionality. They refactored code for improved readability and expanded the styling of the editable list component. The user also added more list items and enhanced the UI of the editable list.
jsweb-componentselementswebcomponentsweb-component
PNW-Individual-Couple-Therapy/marketing-site-staging
Dec 2022 - Feb 2025
Staging site for the PNW Individual & Couple Therapy marketing site
Contributions:40 PRs, 27 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 2 months
coupleindividualtherapypnwmarketing
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