Michal Garbacz
Senior Software Engineer at Updater
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolMichal Garbacz is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building production-ready systems that blend machine learning, user-centered design, and distributed architectures. Currently at Updater after running his own startup garbacz.io, he built NLP-backed authoring tools and trading-analysis apps that leveraged transformer NLU, TensorFlow, and AWS serverless infrastructure. Comfortable with ambiguity, he excels at turning open-ended problems into tightly scoped, iterative deliverables and has a track record of moving prototypes into production from his time founding State Farm’s Silicon Valley dev team. He brings full-stack fluency across Scala, JavaScript/React, Python, and cloud platforms, and a habit of teaching and learning that amplifies team impact. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he pairs academic rigor from UIUC with hands-on R&D experience in real-time data, recommendation systems, and developer tooling.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Philosophy, Computer Science, Philosophy at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Polish, Japanese
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Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mgarbacz/nordrassil
Mar 2017 - Oct 2023
Nordrassil, the Word Trie
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 9 months
trie
mgarbacz/effective-driving-machine
Apr 2019 - Jan 2024
A little AI that drives a little 2D car around a little 2D race track.
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 9 months
ai
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