Sonny Michaud
Senior Engineering Manager at Scribd
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSonny Michaud is an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience scaling platforms, products, and teams, currently serving as an Engineering Manager in Austin. He led SlideShare’s post-acquisition rebuild at Scribd and drove a modernization from a Rails monolith to Next.js/React/GraphQL while building an ads program that removed the content paywall for millions. His work on SlideShare delivered measurable growth—40% year-over-year subscription signup increases and strategic revenue outcomes that exceeded targets. Prior to management, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Indeed where he scaled an assessments product to 100M+ takers and improved performance and deployment velocity dramatically. Sonny blends hands-on full-stack engineering (including open-source contributions to a widely used CLI table library) with strategic product and revenue thinking. He pairs a sociology background from Cornell with recent leadership and negotiation certificates from Harvard Business School Online, highlighting a people-centered approach to technical change.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Other; Certificate in Management Essentials, Other; Certificate in Management Essentials at Harvard Business School OnlineBachelor of Arts - BA Sociology and Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Sociology and Anthropology at Cornell University
Github Skills (9)
cli-application10
format-table10
formatting10
nodejs10
javascript10
cli-tools10
cli-app10
cli10
unicode8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/cli-table
Jul 2012 - Dec 2013
Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sonny primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `cli-table` library, focusing on table formatting and display features. They implemented vertical table support, added the ability to create cross tables, and addressed various bugs related to table rendering, including handling empty rows, newlines in headers and body cells, and calculating cell widths correctly. The user also improved the library's test suite, adding tests for vertical and cross table outputs, and refactored the code.
node-jsjavascriptutf-8nodejscommand-line
sonnym/elm-expressway_doodle
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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