Michael Crane
Personal Sabbatical
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Crane is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade and a half of professional experience and a strong academic foundation in computer and systems engineering from the University of Virginia. He has designed and operated high-availability, low-latency distributed systems at scale for companies like Amazon and Microsoft, and improved developer tooling and security for the TypeScript/Visual Studio ecosystem. His background spans backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and polished web UIs, with hands-on work across Java, C#, Scala/Akka, and modern deployment tooling including Docker and Azure. Notably, he contributed performance-logging improvements to the widely used Microsoft TypeScript compiler, reflecting both attention to operational detail and open-source collaboration. Currently on a personal sabbatical based in Seattle, he combines deep systems thinking with a proven ability to learn new technologies quickly and deliver under changing priorities.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
typescripts10
performance-monitoring10
typescript-types10
compiler-design9
javascript9
logging8
nodejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/TypeScript
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the TypeScript compiler's performance logging capabilities. They added a `PerfLogger` interface and a `NullLogger` implementation to simplify conditional logic related to performance tracking. Further commits involved removing unnecessary `try-finally` blocks and refactoring the `readFile` function. The user also modified several core files to utilize the `perfLogger` for performance monitoring.
javascripttypescripttypechecker
microsoft/vscode-edge-debug2
Apr 2018 - May 2019
This is a VS Code extension which helps you debug your JavaScript Code inside the Edge browser.
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year
javascriptvscode-extension
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