Mitchell Ross
Sr. Principal Software Engineer - Digital at Meijer
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Ross is a senior principal software engineer with 12 years of experience leading eCommerce and mobile engineering at Meijer from architecture to delivery. He drives headless commerce initiatives combining AEM, SAP Commerce (Hybris), React, native iOS/Android apps, and Azure, and played a central role in large-scale migrations such as an 8M-user Okta customer migration. A hands-on leader and mentor, he blends system design for high-volume throughput with practical implementation—building Spring Boot/Kotlin services, REST APIs, OAuth2 integrations, and mobile automation. Outside work he’s a prolific tinkerer, contributing to open-source projects like a Flutter VLC video player that improved cross-platform playback and iOS seek behavior. Known for pushing modern architectures (MVVM, RxJava, React in AEM) and tooling into teams, he pairs deep curiosity with a track record of operationalizing complex digital experiences. Based in Grand Rapids, he consistently balances strategic thought leadership with nights-and-weekends coding.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems at Grand Valley State UniversityForest Hills Eastern High School
japanese ( 2 years in high school )
Github Skills (9)
vlc10
ios10
flutter-game10
android10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
swift9
javas8
java8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
solid-software/flutter_vlc_player
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
📺 Flutter VLC powered video player.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:25 reviews, 21 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell significantly contributed to the `flutter_vlc_player` repository by implementing core features and bug fixes related to the VLC player integration within a Flutter application. The contributions include improving the plugin structure, adding support for aspect ratio, playback control (play/pause/stop), and playback speed adjustments. They also addressed platform-specific issues on iOS, which involved fixing seek time, and made enhancements to improve overall usability and functionality of the video player.
dartvlcvideo-playervideoflutter
mitchross/k3s-argocd-proxmox
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
K3s ArgoCD Homelab
Contributions:252 PRs, 1563 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
argocdhome-operationshomelabk8s-at-homeselfhosted
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