Mitchel Humpherys
Co-Founder & CEO at Directangular
California, United States
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Top SchoolMitchel Humpherys is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building high-performance systems and scaling teams from startup to millions of users. As Co-Founder and CEO of Directangular he bootstrapped a product to over 1 million active users and led full-stack engineering (Python, Node, React, PostgreSQL, websockets) to support 2 million+ daily page views. His earlier firmware and kernel work at Qualcomm and L-3 shows deep systems expertise—authoring SMMU/Linux memory subsystem components and networking/modem C/C++ code—bridging low-level engineering with web-scale product delivery. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved usability in the popular Magit Emacs Git porcelain, demonstrating attention to developer experience and tooling. Based in California, he combines a hardware-rooted pragmatism with product-minded engineering leadership and a surprising fondness for pizza.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Utah State UniversityUniversity of California, Riverside
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (22)
git10
magit10
emacs10
elisp10
user-interface9
git-commit9
python9
ui-design9
logical-operators9
graphical-user-interface9
django-rest-framework9
datatables9
version-control9
elf6
revert6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
magit/magit
Feb 2013 - Jul 2015
It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 29 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mitchel primarily contributed to the `magit` Emacs package, focusing on enhancing its user interface and functionality. They implemented new features, such as the ability to bypass commit verification and auto-advance to the next line in the rebase buffer after selecting an action. Additionally, the user made modifications to existing functionalities by fixing typos, updating help text, and refactoring code for better usability. The user also addressed issues and improved the overall user experience by adding a space between the cherry mark and sha1, and normalizing sha1 lengths for commands.
porcelainmagitemacsgit-porcelainemacs-lisp
mgalgs/.emacs.d
Nov 2011 - Jan 2023
Contributions:911 commits, 2 PRs, 288 pushes in 11 years 3 months
emacsemacs-configuration
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