Michael Uzquiano
Founder at Cloud CMS
Solon, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Uzquiano is a founder and technologist with 18 years building enterprise content and data management systems, most recently as Founder/CTO of Cloud CMS. He blends deep technical expertise—from Java, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Hadoop to AWS, Node.js and mobile stacks—with a strong background in electrical engineering, finance and entrepreneurship. Michael is an active open-source maintainer and contributor, notable for founding Alpaca Forms and contributing to widely used projects like Bower and Spring-based tooling, improving both front-end UX and back-end package resolution. He has a proven track record of turning complex distributed and SaaS problems into production-grade products, while also cultivating developer communities through meetups in Cleveland and Chicago. Beyond engineering, he’s driven by creating opportunities for others—hiring, mentoring and growing ecosystems—and brings an entrepreneur’s pragmatism to technical strategy. A guitarist, soccer player and world traveler, he pairs technical rigor with a restless creativity that shows up in both code and community-building.
18 years of coding experience
Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
jquery10
back-end-development10
bower10
front-end-development10
html10
nodejs10
package-manager10
apidoc9
css9
configuration-management9
api9
frontend8
django-views6
dynamic6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gitana/alpaca
Oct 2010 - Apr 2019
Alpaca provides the easiest way to generate interactive HTML5 forms for web and mobile applications. It uses JSON Schema and simple Handlebars templates to generate great looking, dynamic user interfaces on top of Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile and HTML5.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:795 commits, 73 PRs, 386 pushes in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to cleanup and build fixes, including changes to the jQuery library. These commits modified HTML example files, specifically addressing front-end components such as checkboxes and their styles. The user's contributions primarily involved the front-end, with a focus on improving the appearance, behavior, and interaction of user interface elements.
bootstraphandlebarsjquery-mobilejquery-uijson-schema
bower/bower
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
A package manager for the web
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on modifying and improving the core functionalities of the `bower/bower` package manager. Their work involved refactoring and enhancing the package lookup and search mechanisms by introducing multi-endpoint support, which involved changes to the `lib/core/source.js` and `lib/core/config.js` files. They also addressed merge conflicts and performed code cleanup, including cleaning up of source code and config file. This suggests a focus on improving the reliability and efficiency of the package manager's core logic.
package-managerbowerjavascriptfront-end
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