Mike Skalnik

Worked on original web back-end of enterprise.github.com
Helped start and lead team working on complex file viewing & diffing
- Did primary front end engineering and design work
- Created service that serves millions of customers daily
- As priorities shifted, picked up operations and security work
Contributed to internal Go services
Improved and discussed SOC2 compliance strategies to ensure minimal disruption to developer workflows
Selected projects:
- 3D, GeoJSON, SVG, PSD, PDF, and Jupyter Notebook File Viewing & Diffing
- Large File Storage Usage Tracking
- Markdown Comment Toolbar
- Repository File Uploads
- Markdown Task List Reordering
- Pull Request Reviews along with accompanying REST & GraphQL APIs
- Issue Transfer and Deletion
- Draft Pull Requests
- Package Registry
- Helped split up primary database cluster
- Automatic Branch Deletion & Pull Request Retargeting
- Merge Queue

Developed Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications for customers
Practiced iterative & agile development to ensure client happiness
Worked very closely with stake holders to understand and help meet business level goals of projects
Taught on site Ruby on Rails classes

Responded to on call incidents of customer applications, diagnosed problems with limited context and knowledge of code
Contributed to internal applications written in Ruby on Rails
Worked alongside customers to help scale their applications and ensure maximum uptime
Worked in data center to help bring up new servers

Migrated VaccinateCA.com from Google Sites with Airtable embeds to fully custom website
Guided engineering direction by setting roadmap and helping volunteers contribute
Helped with localization, including bidirectional design changes
Built out VaccinateTheStates.com on top of Mapbox MTS
Faciliated shutdown and redirection to official government run vaccination database