Mike Steele
Senior Web Engineer at Spotify
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Steele is a Senior Web Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact, performant front-end systems for companies like Spotify and Drizly, and architecting design systems used by 1,000+ engineers at athenahealth. He specializes in React, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL and accessibility (WCAG AA), and pairs this with backend experience in Java, gRPC, Rails and Node to deliver end-to-end features that boost conversion, retention, and SEO. At Drizly he shipped major features that scaled through 1,600% user growth, and at Spotify he works on software that powers royalty payments for artists. He’s pragmatic about performance and testing—his design system work emphasized bundle size, graphical performance, and >90% Jest coverage—and communicates effectively with stakeholders across product and design. Outside of work he built "dual-captions," a React extension used by over 10,000 people and adopted in classrooms worldwide to teach English, reflecting a practical focus on accessibility and real user impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
French, English
Github Skills (102)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikesteele/dual-captions
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
🌐 Subtitles in two languages for YouTube & Netflix
Contributions:46 releases, 490 commits, 146 PRs in 5 years 1 month
netflixyoutubelanguagessubtitleskanopy
mikesteele/react-game-hooks
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
:space_invader: Hooks for creating 2D platform games in React
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 5 months
reactgamesreact-hooksspace-invaderreactjs
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