About

Michael Bolin is a highly experienced software engineer with 17.12 years of relevant experience. He is currently working at Facebook as a Software Engineer, where he is responsible for working on Eden, a virtual filesystem. He is also the creator of Nuclide, a set of packages that provide IDE-like functionality for Atom. This tool is used by thousands of Facebook engineers daily and is unique in its support for Hack, Flow, Hg, and remote development. He is also the creator of Buck, an open-source build tool that is used for building the bulk of code at Facebook. Before joining Facebook, Michael Bolin worked at Google, where he worked on the frontend of Google Calendar and Google Tasks. He also built the Closure Compiler Application Service and helped open-source the Closure Tools. Prior to that, he worked at Yext as a Software Engineer. Michael Bolin has also worked independently and wrote Closure: The Definitive Guide. He also created plovr, a Closure build tool. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Math from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also completed his MEng Thesis on End-User Programming for the Web. He also created Chickenfoot, a Firefox extension that enables end-users to customize web pages and automate tasks on the Web, which won two best paper awards. Michael Bolin's specialties include JavaScript, Java, Web, iOS, Frontend, Python, Android, and Objective-c. He is a highly skilled software engineer who has made significant contributions to the development of various tools and platforms, and his work has been widely recognized in the industry.