Mike Kerzhner
Chief Technology Officer at Product Hunt
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Kerzhner is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, scalable systems across startups and large companies, currently running an LLM-enabled product organization at Product Hunt. He brings deep hands-on expertise in distributed payments and state channels from his work as a founding engineer at Magmo and Senior Staff Engineer at ConsenSys, where he helped open-source a production-grade state channel framework and designed an efficient asset transfer protocol. Earlier roles at Yahoo and OnTheAir show a track record of shipping data- and media-driven products that moved significant user and revenue metrics, while internships and engineering roles at Apple and Amazon grounded him in performance engineering. A frequent contributor to infrastructure code — including focused backend work on The Graph’s indexer receipt-manager — he blends product sensibility with rigorous engineering and test coverage. He pairs an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford with a habit of tackling both low-level performance problems and high-level protocol design, and he’s outspoken about reducing “AI slop” in real products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. degree Computer Science, M.S. degree Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
jestjs9
server-side9
jtest9
server9
jes9
back-end-development9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
graphprotocol/indexer
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Graph Protocol indexer components and infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on the `receipt-manager` component within the `indexer-service`. Their contributions focused on refining the state channel message handling logic, including improvements to the message merging process and error handling. They refactored the codebase by removing the `mockQuery` and `getExistingChannelId` methods, and ensured test coverage for core functionalities. These changes suggest the user was responsible for the internal logic of the payment processing and integration.
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kerzhner/Airflow-old
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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