Mike Garite
I bring product, design, and engineering together so teams can build with AI and ship with confidence.
I take on a small number of advisory and build engagements each quarter. If you're working on something in AI, I'd like to hear about it.
Currently
Founder & CTO at ZoomProp
Your home's hub.
15+ years designing and building2,940 contributions in the last 12 months
Previously
Facebook · Apple · Google · YouTube · Pandora · eBay · MLB · Rhombus
Commit history
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20262,704 contributions
Writing
Leading teams, shipping products, and building with AI.
Design
Cursor and Google both shipped two-way voice for coding agents in the same week. The interesting part is not speech. It is what the interface has to become when an agent runs for a long time.
Agents · AI · Design systems · 3 min
Leadership
Deals increasingly turn on how a company runs agents, data, and delivery systems. The useful sales motion is not a louder pitch. It is a better conversation with the engineers who can evaluate the real architecture.
Careers · Leadership · Business · 3 min
Leadership
Software job postings are rising even as agents write more of the code. The rebound is concentrated in senior and AI-oriented roles. Entry-level paths are thinner. That changes how teams hire and how they grow people.
Careers · Leadership · Agents · 3 min
Product
Humana and athenahealth expanded FHIR-based prior authorization across more than 180,000 clinicians. The lesson for data work is familiar: standards matter when they sit inside the encounter, not in another portal.
Healthcare · Interoperability · Data · 3 min
Product
Grok Bot hit a unit-economics wall in early November. Usage limits tightened because serving costs outran revenue. The lesson is broader than one product: agent systems fail first as businesses, not as demos.
Agents · AI · Product · 3 min
Product
Returns, refunds, chargebacks, and price adjustments are not edge cases. They are a large share of ecommerce economics. Here is a practical way to handle them without training customers to abuse the policy or punishing honest ones.
Business · Product · Data · 3 min
Engineering
A weak vendor or customer match does not stay local. It multiplies through finance, risk, support, and AI agents. Entity resolution is not housekeeping. It is the control point for everything that follows.
Data · Architecture · Business · 3 min
Delivery
At GitHub Universe, the message was clear: the job is shipping finished software with agents, not producing more lines. Here is what that changes about review, accountability, and what done means.
Agents · AI · Delivery · 4 min
Product
Online retail keeps taking share, but the interesting shift is operational: real-time decisions, AI in the payment path, and reverse logistics treated as a product surface rather than a cost center.
Business · Product · Data · 3 min
Selected work
From interaction design to running engineering and product. Here is the path, newest first.
Now · 2022–Present
Founder & CTO
Your home's hub.
I founded ZoomProp and lead product and engineering. Photos and video become a care list for the house, projects stay with it, and the same record is there when you rent or sell.
Nov 2019–Jan 2023
VP of Product
I led product at Rhombus, a contextual ad platform for social embeds in publisher articles. Kargo acquired us in August 2020.
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.
How I help
Each one matters on its own. They work best when someone keeps them in step.
Making sure the identity is clear, the product is thought through, and the design system holds together.
The architecture is solid, and my 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.
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Read about the work, the tools, and how I help teams ship.
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.