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
Each square is one day. The colour warms as the day gets fuller. Scroll or drag left to go back.
20262,704 contributions
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.
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
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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.