Mikey Stengel is a founder and full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience building progressive web apps and elegant software architecture from Turin, Italy. He combines hands-on product development—currently building Zoe (getzoe.app)—with senior engineering roles that have spanned startups and education-focused platforms. His contributions to the popular xstate project as a QA/test automation engineer show a strong focus on resilient state management and rigorous type-checked testing. Mikey has led engineering work across the stack, values flawless user experience, and enjoys tackling hard problems with modern technologies. He also mentors and consults, translating business-informed software engineering from his degree in Business Informatics into pragmatic product outcomes. Notably, he balances founding a startup with advanced engineering engagements in reinforcement learning and AI at G2i.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business informatics (Software Engineering), Bachelor's degree, Business informatics (Software Engineering) at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
Abitur, Computer Software Engineering, Abitur, Computer Software Engineering at Technical School (Gymnasium) Albert-Einstein-Schule
Actor-based state management & orchestration for complex app logic.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 68 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mikey primarily contributed to the project by writing and modifying tests. These tests cover various aspects of the xstate library, including type checking, state machine behavior, and actions. The user added tests for parallel state schemas, event handling, and the integration of actions within the state machine logic. They also worked on tests that interact with features of the library like choose action creator and guards.
State machines and statecharts for the modern web.
Contributions:14 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 4 months
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