Mitch Spano is a product and software engineering leader with a decade of experience building developer-focused platforms and enterprise systems, now directing product for the Apex programming language at Salesforce. He blends hands-on back-end engineering—evidenced by substantive refactors and improved test coverage on a popular Apex trigger framework—with product leadership gained at Google where he progressed from application engineer to engineering manager. Mitch holds advanced degrees in computer software engineering and artificial intelligence, pairing rigorous academic training with practical delivery across startups and large organizations. Based in Somerset, Wisconsin, he’s known for simplifying complex deployment and exception-handling challenges in production systems while driving cross-functional teams to ship reliable developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at Austin
Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
A framework for partitioning, ordering, and bypassing trigger logic for applications built on Salesforce.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:38 reviews, 134 commits, 181 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mitch primarily focused on refactoring existing code and improving the test coverage within the framework. They worked on exception handling, consolidating error messages, and modifying the trigger base class. The commits demonstrate a focus on code organization and addressing potential deployment issues by modifying trigger logic. The user's contributions seem related to streamlining the trigger framework's core functionality.
Contributions:19 releases, 43 reviews, 21 commits in 5 months
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Mitch Spano - Director Of Product Management at Salesforce