Mike Watson
Senior Software Engineer at Capsule
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Watson is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building and stabilizing web platforms across startups and mid-size companies. He’s a pragmatic full-stack engineer who has delivered customer-facing integrations, rearchitected monoliths toward microservices, and led reliability efforts that reduced outages and sped up critical paths. Recent work includes AI feature development in Jetpack using ChatGPT and image-generation tooling, as well as merchant checkout and SSO systems built with Stripe, SAML, and OAuth. He pairs hands-on coding in JavaScript/TypeScript and Go with technical leadership—mentoring engineers, owning on-call incident triage, and driving cross-team RCA processes. Notably, he has collaborated with Google on testing Chrome’s in-development LLM integrations, reflecting both product-focus and experience with cutting-edge AI tooling.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University at Albany
Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
bots10
js10
php10
jetpack10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
corpus10
plugin10
security10
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mwatson/wordfilter
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 2 years 11 months
badstringsjavascriptgeneratorstext-generators
mwatson/BoggleSolver
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:9 releases, 15 commits, 14 pushes in 1 month
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