Mike Fullerton
Creative
|Creative
I've been a musician my whole life. Playing the drums is one of my three longest relationships — first is my mother, second is my sister. It's part of who I am.
Software Architect
|Software Architect
Writing software in the Apple ecosystem since AppleSoft Basic was invented. I spent years building things at Microsoft and Apple, and I haven't stopped since.
Entrepreneur
|Entrepreneur
Building things from scratch — from a band to a software platform. Founding, creating, shipping.
Human
Human
Based in the Seattle area. I like making things, hearing from people, and good coffee.
Latest
Building reliable streaming APIs — the feature itself is just the start. Timeout handling is where the real engineering happens.
Refactoring before adding features — why extracting an auth module first made adding JWT refresh trivial.
Hot take: if your tests pass with mocks but fail in prod, you don't have tests — you have a fiction novel.
New post: The case for building your own tools — why I wrote a social media scheduler from scratch.
Scratchy Fish rehearsal tonight — working on a new arrangement that's 80% groove and 20% chaos. Just how we like it.