Mike Bifulco

@irreverentmike
Co-founder, CTO @ Craftwork (S23). DevRel, author, podcaster
Charlotte, NC, USA
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I'm Mike Bifulco. I'm a technologist, a designer, and a creator of things, working as a CTO at Craftwork (YC S23).

🖼️ Paint your home the easy way at craftwork.com
📝 Find my words at mikebifulco.com
🎙 Listen to the APIs You Won't Hate Podcast

The stuff you find here is my own opinion, and doesn't necessarily reflect those of my employer.

I'm open to

open source contributions,

guest lecturing,

activism,

joining company boards,

speaking on podcasts,

and content creation.

Contact Me

Oh, hello

Resume

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Nov 2022 - Present

Co-founder, CTO, Craftwork

Jan 2019 - Present

Author, mikebifulco.com

Jan 2017 - Present

Cofounder, APIs You Won't Hate

Jul 2022 - Present

Podcast Host, Software Engineering Daily

Links

📝 My website - mikebifulco.com

💾 APIs You Won't Hate

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So, I got laid off -- now what?

TFW the Polywork team sends a care package 😍

All the baby farm animals | goats, piglets, alpacas, llamas, kinkajou, bunny, donkey, sheep, emu 100% credit on this one goes to my wife - she's been hard at work on a series of educational videos ...

I’ve been featured!

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Craftwork in Times Square

Charlotte tech startup at Y Combinator raises $4 million

Possibly the most meta-update I'll ever share on Polywork: they published a feature about some of the work I've been fortunate enough to be a part of. I am lucky to be able to share what I've learn...

📰 ATO’s ‘Open Source Charlotte’ to Hold Inaugural Event January 26

Side projects

My exploits as a cameraman continue... My wife's second in a series of videos from a visit to a local farm went live: Cute newborn piglets | all about piglets and pigs I was lucky enough to accompa...

Things I’ve built

Site re-launch: apisyouwonthate.com

Announcing PrimaryFocus.tv Working on a content-driven Remix/Sanity site to use as marketing and distribution for my wife's YouTube channel, Primary Focus. It's a WIP, but I'd love to hear what you...

Podcasts

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CodeStory Podcast Interview

Creating world-class API devX with Sagar Batchu from Speakeasy

Jazzed about API client library codegen, with Danny Sheridan from Fern

Learnin' about webhooks, with Tom Haconen from Svix

Speaking engagements

Interview with Don the Developer Developer Advocate In 2022? Do you enjoy creating content or even just have an interest in understanding users who use a product? Especially if you have coding know...

Had a great chat with Brian Douglas about building the APIs You Won't Hate community on a twitter space for Open Sauced https://twitter.com/saucedopen/status/1520089205342236675

Videos

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Livestream: State of JavaScript 2022

Optimize images for the web with Squoosh #webdevelopment #javascript #react #nextjs #node #jamstack

Dev Chats - Adding Stripe to your React Native Apps with CallStack In this livestream, Mike Bifulco and Matthew Ling will be joined by Jan Jaworski from CallStack. We'll learn how add payment proce...

The developer feedback experience: friction logging with Mike Bifulco Fintech Devcon 2022 talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2vyeK3JDKs

Articles and blogs

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Your resume sucks.

Continuous self improvement and the morning ritual

Two truths and a lie: what Meta got right with the Threads launch

Maximize user retention: the cognitive science approach...