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{
"basics": {
"label": "Senior Software Engineer",
"name": "Michael Salaverry",
"profiles": [
{
"network": "Github",
"url": "https://github.com/barakplasma",
"username": "barakplasma"
},
{
"network": "Codewars",
"url": "https://www.codewars.com/users/barakplasma",
"username": "barakplasma (top 3% of users)"
},
{
"network": "LinkedIn",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsalaverry/",
"username": "michaelsalaverry"
},
{
"network": "Dev.to",
"url": "https://dev.to/barakplasma",
"username": "barakplasma"
}
],
"summary": "Senior Software Engineer specializing in scalable web applications, cloud services, and data engineering. I thrive on turning complex challenges into elegant technical solutions, building reliable systems, and enabling teams to innovate efficiently.",
"website": "https://github.com/barakplasma"
},
"education": [
{
"area": "Environmental Horticulture and Urban Forestry",
"endDate": "2013-06-01",
"institution": "University of California Davis",
"startDate": "2009-09-01",
"studyType": "Bachelor"
},
{
"area": "Frontend Development",
"endDate": "2017-09-01",
"institution": "Wix Kickstart",
"startDate": "2017-06-01",
"studyType": "Bootcamp for CS graduates"
}
],
"interests": [
{
"keywords": [
"Backpacking",
"Rock climbing",
"Motorcycles"
],
"name": "Outdoors"
},
{
"keywords": [
"3D printing",
"Baking",
"Cardboard crafts"
],
"name": "DIY"
},
{
"keywords": [
"RTL-SDR",
"Drones",
"Weather Sensors",
"Raspberry Pi",
"ESP8266",
"ESP32"
],
"name": "IoT"
}
],
"languages": [
{
"fluency": "C2 / Native speaker",
"language": "English"
},
{
"fluency": "B2 / Conversational and technical",
"language": "Hebrew"
}
],
"meta": {
"theme": "professional"
},
"skills": [
{
"keywords": [
"HTML",
"CSS",
"Typescript",
"React",
"Vue",
"Jest",
"Ramda",
"Web Components",
"Phaser.js",
"A-Frame"
],
"level": "Senior",
"name": "Frontend"
},
{
"keywords": [
"Python",
"Golang",
"Node.js",
"SQL",
"Redis",
"Next.js",
"Rust",
"Opentrons robotics",
"Linux / Shell scripting",
"Directus"
],
"level": "Senior",
"name": "Backend"
},
{
"keywords": [
"Kubernetes",
"Docker",
"Google Cloud",
"VPS",
"Self-hosting",
"K3s"
],
"level": "Mid",
"name": "DevOps"
}
],
"work": [
{
"highlights": [
"Joined as the 17th employee, responsible for designing and developing the frontend architecture supporting AI-driven pharmaceutical discovery.",
"Created and deployed real-time streaming data pipelines to enable machine learning workflows on laboratory data.",
"Contributed across Data Engineering, Robotics, IoT, and frontend development to support company growth."
],
"name": "QurisAI",
"position": "Senior Fullstack Web Developer",
"startDate": "2022-02-21",
"summary": "Developed scalable data pipelines and interactive dashboards powering AI-driven drug discovery.",
"website": "https://www.quris.ai/"
},
{
"endDate": "2022-02-15",
"highlights": [
"Maintained and improved the QuickBooks invoice payment platform, moving millions of dollars daily for small businesses worldwide.",
"Enhanced operational excellence, observability, and disaster recovery for a large-scale Next.js (server-side rendered) application.",
"Led cross-team initiatives to resolve multiple high-priority security vulnerabilities affecting payment systems."
],
"name": "Intuit",
"position": "Frontend Engineer",
"startDate": "2019-10-22",
"summary": "Focused on reliability engineering and security for high-scale financial applications.",
"website": "https://www.intuit.com/"
},
{
"endDate": "2019-10-01",
"highlights": [
"Introduced and championed test-driven development, training frontend and backend teams on unit and integration testing.",
"Developed an animated real-time heatmap widget using IoT data over WebSockets and a client-side time-series database.",
"Contributed several upstream bug fixes to open-source dependencies.",
"Redeveloped the client-side device graph implementation for improved performance."
],
"name": "Axonize",
"position": "Frontend Developer",
"startDate": "2018-10-01",
"summary": "Engineered real-time IoT dashboards with a focus on reliability and clean code practices.",
"website": "https://www.axonize.com/"
},
{
"endDate": "2018-10-01",
"highlights": [
"Designed and deployed a Node.js/AWS Lambda chatbot that automated DNS-related customer service, saving hundreds of support hours per month.",
"Led a full-stack rewrite of the company’s internal CRM to improve scalability and usability.",
"Taught a multi-week CS fundamentals course to customer service staff, raising technical literacy across the team.",
"Founded and trained Wix’s vulnerability triage team, improving response to security reports."
],
"name": "Wix",
"position": "Frontend Developer",
"startDate": "2016-02-15",
"summary": "Developed automation tools and internal platforms to streamline customer support and improve security processes.",
"website": "https://www.wix.com/"
},
{
"highlights": [
"Delivered technical solutions in high-pressure, forward-deployed environments.",
"Built strong leadership and teamwork skills under demanding conditions."
],
"name": "IDF",
"position": "Master Sergeant, Paratrooper Brigade",
"startDate": "2013-12-01",
"summary": "Completed full mandatory military service with ongoing reserve duty."
}
],
"achievements": [
{
"title": "Open Source Contributions",
"summary": "Active contributor to widely used open-source projects, with accepted patches, bug fixes, and improvements beyond personal repositories.",
"highlights": [
"Submitted upstream bug fixes to major JavaScript and Node.js ecosystem libraries.",
"Improved stability and performance in open-source IoT, data visualization, and frontend toolkits.",
"Recognized by maintainers for quality pull requests and long-term issue resolution."
]
},
{
"title": "Competitive Programming",
"summary": "Ranked in the top 3% of developers on Codewars, demonstrating problem-solving ability and strong algorithmic thinking."
},
{
"title": "Community Engagement",
"summary": "Published technical articles on Dev.to and GitHub, sharing knowledge on modern web engineering, IoT, and automation."
}
]
}
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