Summary
Mike Yamato is a software engineer with eight years of full-stack experience building scalable web and mobile products across TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, and cloud platforms. He has shipped cross-platform browser extensions and React Native apps, led migrations from legacy geospatial stacks to Mapbox, and implemented SAML SSO and SOC 2–aligned practices for enterprise clients. As a founding engineer at Toucan he combined product-minded UX improvements, privacy-preserving design, and performance optimization to grow engagement and retention. He’s comfortable in both monolithic and microservice architectures, having built GraphQL/Apollo and REST APIs, Dockerized deployments, and CI/CD pipelines for Azure and AWS. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and documentation, helping teams onboard quickly and maintain reliable releases. An understated strength is his marketing background, which informs pragmatic decisions that improve discoverability and user adoption.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Coding Bootcamp, Coding Bootcamp at UCLA Extension
Cal Poly Pomona
English, Japanese