I’m Michael. I was a principal engineer at Facebook from 2009 to 2017, where I was the top code contributor of all time and also conducted hundreds of interviews. I recently co-founded Formation.dev, an engineering fellowship that trains and refers engineers directly into big tech. Ask me Anything!

Hi! I actually didn't know I wanted to program all day when I started college. I was really into physics and the universe. I wrote a paper on quantum computing in high school. To me, engineers build things, and scientists study things. When I look for the deepest thing inside me that makes me an engineer it's that my drive is to find patterns and connections amongst very large systems/projects. So I like building things in the messy and imperfect world we live in, rather than coming up with interesting ideas on paper.