# Michael Wang

> Senior Software Engineer, Frontend at Blockworks

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelwang2

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Frontend @ Blockworks
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, Frontend @ Ava Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer (Front End) @ Minted
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
•   Team lead for frontend driven projects. Responsibilities include tech design creation, project sizing, and resourcing
•   Core member of new customizer growth initiative (tech stack: typescript, nextjs, rematch redux, graphql, emotion). The new customizer was responsible for generating $51MM, which accounts for 26% of the total revenue generated by Minted in 2019. 
•   One of Minted’s Front End Architecture Application Owners (tech stack: webpack, react, redux, sass, and emotion)
•   Built rich and reusable UI components for Minted’s Component library
•   Mentored waterloo intern Milan DiGiuseppe for spring 2019 co-op

### Software Engineer @ Minted
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Front End Engineer @ Global Footprint Network
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Oakland
Built a stateful web application with react/redux framework that serves as Global Footprint Network’s Open Data Platform
         - Accommodated for ajax/async issues by implementing standard Redux Thunk Middleware practices
         - Cleaned API data to produce reusable Highcharts and D3js visualizations
         -  Implemented mobile responsive design throughout application using bootstrap framework and CSS Modules
         -  Developed GFN preloader using illustrator and CSS3 transitions to improve overall user experience on 
              initial load and page transitions 
         - Introduced client-side cache mechanism to reduce DOM manipulation count

Built separate tool for internal members to manipulate API data while maintaining data integrity with User Authentication
	 - Created login page that sends a POST call to the API and grabs key authentication
               for future use
	 - Allowed manipulation of internal data via CRUD operations     
             
Experience producing production ready code through Webpack and Gulp
	- Optimized code using React-Loadable and CommonChunksPlugin to reduce initial load time by 33%
	- Minified assets using UglifyjsWebpackPlugin and ImageMinPlugin


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-wang-5535a011a

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Last updated: 2026-04-01