Mike Garite
I design it, build it, and make it run itself. Then I build and lead the team that keeps it running, so nobody has to carry it all alone.
Currently Founder & CTO at ZoomProp. The AI phone line for the brokerage.
Facebook · Apple · Google · YouTube · Pandora · eBay · MLB · Rhombus · ZoomProp
Selected work
From interaction design to running engineering and product. Here is the path, newest first.
Now · 2022–Present
Founder & CTO
The AI phone line for the brokerage.
I founded ZoomProp and lead product and engineering. It gives real estate teams an AI phone line that answers every property call, with an operator desk behind it where people run the work those calls create.
Nov 2019–Jan 2023
VP of Product
I led product at Rhombus, keeping the roadmap, design, and engineering pointed at the same problems.
Aug 2018–Oct 2019
Director of Front-End Software Engineering
I led front-end engineering for MLB.com, the At Bat app, stats, scores and player pages.
2016–2018
Design Engineer
I led rapid prototyping with eBay's C-suite and helped develop the design system eBay still builds on.
2013–2015
Interaction Designer/Developer
At Pandora I designed interactions and then built them, so the same person carried the idea from sketch to working code.
2013–2013
Front-End Developer
Through the agency BYND, I worked on prototyping for Safety Check, the Facebook feature that let people mark themselves safe during a crisis.
2013–2013
Front-End Developer
Through the agency BYND, I worked on iAd, Apple's mobile advertising platform, on Apple's Cupertino campus.
2013–2013
Front-End Developer
Through the agency BYND, I built marketing pages for Google.
2013–2013
Front-End Developer
Through the agency BYND, I prototyped YouTube's first email marketing campaign.
Commit history
Each square is one day. The colour warms as the day gets fuller. Scroll or drag left to go back a year.
20262,704 contributions
How I help
Each one matters on its own. They work best when someone keeps them in step.
I make sure the identity is clear, the product is thought through, and the design system holds together.
The architecture is solid, and someone's hands are on it.
I lead the people and run agile, scrum, and sprints that keep things moving, with only the meetings that earn their spot.
Self-healing, self-shipping systems, so the busywork runs itself.
Writing
Leading teams, shipping products, and building with AI.
Streaming solved access and broke almost everything else: discovery, ownership, and how artists get paid. My opinions, from someone who spent years designing and building listening experiences at Pandora and now works on royalty data.
Music · Product7 min read
The open web is splitting into gated pockets: robots.txt walls, login walls, paid APIs and private licensing deals. What the data shows, where it complicates the story, and what builders and readers should do about it.
Open web · AI · Data · Business8 min read
Codebases don't stay sprawling forever. Given enough years, they converge or they die. What one product's repos taught me about monorepos, deleting more than you add, and why the best month of a codebase can be the month it gets smaller.
Architecture · Codebases · TypeScript · Leadership7 min read
Let’s talk
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Toolbox
93 languages, frameworks, models, and services from real projects. Bold ones are daily drivers.
Models that run on my own hardware, offline when it matters, with routing for the rest.
The component and token layer under every interface I ship.