Summary
Mike Spangler is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups, enterprise labs, and high-growth product teams. He has led engineering at Frame and Wheels, scaled fleets and data pipelines to handle hundreds of millions of GPS points, and at Copy.ai architected core APIs and a workflows engine powering millions of users and integrations with LLM providers. At JPL he modernized testing interfaces and ETL pipelines, cutting latencies dramatically and helping migrate legacy systems to Kubernetes—demonstrating both deep performance optimization and cloud-native migration expertise. Now at Blueprint in Los Angeles, he blends hands-on coding with leadership, hiring and cross-functional collaboration to deliver reliable services with five-nines uptime experience. A lifelong learner with a background spanning web development, physics-adjacent studies, and production roles in media, he brings an uncommon mix of product empathy, operational rigor, and data-driven engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Ecology, Physics Ecology at Baruch College
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at Flatiron School
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at Loyola Marymount University
English, Spanish