Michael Staub
Owner at Code Crafters
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Staub is a seasoned software engineer and founder based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building graphics, web, robotics, cloud, and AI systems. He has led fast-growing engineering teams and shipped flagship products—from WebGL/WebVR authoring tools at Autodesk to Bright Machines’ Brightware—while scaling organizations and practices rapidly. As a principal engineer and tech lead he blends hands-on front-end performance work with architecture and DevOps ownership, including creating CI/CD pipelines and mission-critical distributed systems. Michael also contributes to notable open-source tooling, enhancing the popular serverless-offline project to better emulate AWS Lambda and API Gateway for local development. Recently he’s focused on agentic AI for insurance underwriting and now consults with enterprise clients on AI strategy through his company, Code Crafters. Curious across domains, he combines graphics/VR roots with practical cloud and robotics engineering to deliver complex, user-focused products.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorUMass Lowell
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Github Skills (20)
json10
javascript10
aws-lambda10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-framework10
aws-api-gateway-v210
babel69
hapi9
babel-core9
nodejs9
babeljs9
css-modules6
react6
ecmascript6
semantic-ui6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dherault/serverless-offline
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 1 PR in 19 days
Contributions summary:Michael focused on enhancing the serverless-offline plugin by addressing compatibility issues and adding new features. They implemented support for authorizer functions within the API Gateway emulation, enabling custom authentication flows. The user also refactored code for better readability and maintainability, and they fixed bugs related to request payload parsing and babel integration. These contributions improve the plugin's functionality and its ability to accurately simulate AWS Lambda and API Gateway locally.
api-gatewayawsserverlessaws-lambdaaws-apigateway
mikestaub/Ray-Tracer
Jan 2012 - Nov 2012
My first ray tracer project.
Contributions:4 commits in 10 months
rayray-tracertracer
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