Misha Ponizil
Staff Engineer at Check
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMisha Ponizil is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building thoughtful, user-focused products at early-stage companies and scale-up teams. Based in New Haven, he blends frontend leadership and full-stack sensibilities, having progressed from hands-on frontend roles to staff-level architecture and delivery at Check and Monument. He thrives wearing multiple hats—product, implementation, and engineering—demonstrated by co-founding a startup and leading cross-functional launches at ChatID and Latch. Misha favors elegant solutions to interesting problems and brings practical mentorship, having trained junior engineers and driven projects from MVP to production. He has a track record of shipping scalable frontend applications for large retailers and contributing open-source JavaScript libraries while keeping a pragmatic, product-oriented perspective. Quietly entrepreneurial, he pairs liberal arts thinking with solid CS grounding from NYU to connect user needs with robust technical tradeoffs.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts / Computer Science, Liberal Arts / Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (152)
crawler10
postmessage10
scrape10
web-crawler10
scraper10
javascript9
dao9
browser9
bdd9
testing9
test-framework9
hosting9
pgaudit9
npm9
tooltip9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chatid/iframe-transport
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
postMessage wrapper for processing method calls, callbacks, and events
Contributions:191 commits, 8 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 7 months
eventscallbackscallsmethodmethod-calls
mponizil/relay
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:219 pushes, 13 branches, 1 tag in 4 months
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