# Mike Chlipala

> Engineering @ Figma // Ex-GitHub, Instacart

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mikechlipala

Engineering leader focused on building complex product and platform systems.
 
I specialize in turning ambiguous, high-stakes problems into scalable, reliable systems, often at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and developer experience. My work emphasizes clean abstractions, strong system design, and making complex systems easier for teams to build on.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Rewatch
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Built Rewatch's AI-powered features like automated summaries, action items and recaps for videos.

Rewatch was acquired by Atlassian in August 2024.

### Staff Software Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Promoted to Staff Engineer. Supported the Pull Requests, Repositories, and Codespaces department.

- Rolled out a new on-call process for the department; designed and led gameday on-call exercises for the team
- Reclaimed XTBs of space in MySQL in an effort to reduce load and usage on frequently accessed tables
- Supported feature ships like auto-merge & multi-line suggestions
- Resolved critical customer escalations

### Senior Software Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Transitioned to an IC role and worked on tons of interesting projects: scaling out notifications, built the initial notifications API to power mobile apps, built multi-line comments in pull request reviews, rewrote the CODEOWNERs algorithm, lots of scaling and performance work in pull requests.

### Engineering Manager @ GitHub
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
Managing a new team to overhaul notifications across GitHub.

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Brat Box
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020
Pins and patches delivered to your door every month. I built and maintain all of the technology that powers https://www.bratbox.co/. The business was acquired in March 2020.

### Technical Lead Manager @ Instacart
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco
June 2015 - March 2017: Technical Lead Manager on the Customer Core Experience team

Sept 2014 - June 2015: Software Engineer on the Consumer Product team

### Software Engineer @ Swiftype
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
Maintained API client libraries in Python, Ruby and JavaScript. Authored the Node.js client library. Built an on-boarding wizard for the web crawler and a custom query builder with live search result updates.

### Software Engineer @ LivingSocial
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
Software Engineer on LivingSocial's Platform team.

### Sales Engineer / Product Specialist @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, CA
Google Apps Deployment


## Education
### BSB in Information Systems
University of Minnesota


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mchlipala
- Portfolio: http://mike.chlipala.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11